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If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy, that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Good People I Can
Advocate
Needing
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I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Chords
Melody
Cent
Per
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We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Creative Work
Criticism
Publicly
Ridiculed
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I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Pension
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Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Success Failure Your
Seed
Success Is
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I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Dreamed
Picking
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When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Hook
Physique
Ascertain
Run
Lose
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If you're in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, 'That girl walking down the street is great.'
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Good Relationship
Good Relationship Great
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You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Different Place
Hunger
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Kasabian are wicked. They've got the hit songs, but it's the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Wicked
Presence
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I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Metaphor
Equally
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In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Immense
Rollercoaster
Ride
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What I dislike about going to the club is if you're not behind that red rope, you feel you're missing something special going on.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Dislike
Missing
Rope
Something Special
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My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Award
First Place
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My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Conscious
Effort
Raised
Life Dad Me
Conscious Effort
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When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Melody
Lyric
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When I was 16, I didn't really know what intuition was as a word, even. It's one of those things you experience, but you don't really know what it is.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Intuition
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Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Advice
Listening
Sheep
Among
Be Yourself
Wolves
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I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Embodiment
Previous Life
Plays
Previous
Resonate
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When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we'd sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Expectation
Sold
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I'm not angry about 'Bo' Selecta!' I was flattered at first and even appeared on his show, but he just went on to become more vicious, knocking down everything I did.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Flattered
Vicious
Appeared
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'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Madness
Fill
Peak
Released
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That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Cool
Played
Joke
Damaging
Roll
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'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Council
Estate
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If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Demise
Nostalgia
Life Past My Life
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When I started writing material, I realised you could take a ballad like Usher's 'Nice and Slow,' sing the same melody over a garage track, and everyone would be up and dancing.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Garage
Melody
Realised
Ballad
Usher
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I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Nonsense
Realised
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I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Nonsense
End Of The Day Day End
End Of The Day
Leave
Heterosexual
Reinforce
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I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Morning
Thinking
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Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Addiction
Alcohol
Drug
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Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Great Music
Best Time Music
Stamp
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For me, I have the highest amount of respect for DJs. There's a real skill set and ability to hold a crowd's attention for four to five hours, especially with an R&B/hip-hop and open-format music.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Ability
Amount
Attention
Djs
Five
Hours
Respect Music Me
Hold
Skill
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I have enough rings to cover both hands, but that is crass. There is a fine line between looking nice and looking over. Sometimes, I look at myself and say, 'Craig, that is over.' You have to be careful.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Be Careful
Careful
Rings
Craig
Fine Line
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I never let anyone know I was insecure about it - it was my own little thing - but I did have a problem being overweight. I always felt people were looking at me in a certain way as opposed to who I really was.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Insecure
Overweight
Always Me People
Certain Way
Me Looking People
Little Thing
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When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it's 1,600-capacity, then it's an arena - so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it's not enough.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Arena
Box
Stadium
Telling
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The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Morning
Bridges
Long
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People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Good And Bad
Locked
Love Trust Good
Qualities
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I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn't burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Heating
Scar
Burn
Check
Lighter
Pressing
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Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Sponsorship
Surreal
Music Great Me
Picked
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I wrote a song called 'Four Times A Lady' for Destiny's Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy's point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It's Craig David now.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Guy
Perfect
Point Of View
Song
Track
Child
David
Craig
Lady
Lyrics
Spin
View
Wrote
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I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Thinking
Walking Away
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I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Positive
Cool
Failure
Magnet
Negative
Recognise
Sides
Positive Life Cool
Life Cool Success
Opposite
Accept
Try
Both
Part
Too
Cut
Still
Off
Identified
Just Be
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I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender, whatever the vibe is, that's what you represent. I've always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Transgender
Define
Gay Bisexual People
Heterosexual
Lesbian
Vibe
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I see some artists who disown songs they love when they don't chart well. Would you do that to your children? Trust me, children ain't gonna do all the right things, so are you gonna disown them or embrace them and say, 'No, you're still my child. You didn't go out and do the right thing, but I'll still love you in the same way?'
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Right Thing
Trust Me
Love Trust Your
Chart
Love Trust Me
Do The Right Thing
The Right Thing
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I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on. People are live streaming from the ground, so everyone's starting to become more aware. When you pull back from this playground of duality, where someone is right and someone is wrong, you recognise that this is the way things have played out for years and years. And as long as the youth culture can see the madness that's going on in the world, there will eventually be a revolution.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Cutting
Long
People
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For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Balance
Healthy
People
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