David Essex

I hate pretension.

— David Essex

I think I'm a good person.

— David Essex

I am a nice person I think.

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My drive was not to get fame.

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Change is a stimulant for me.

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I've just never stopped working.

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I came from music really.

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I started in blues bands when I was 15.

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I was always quite shy so I became a drummer.

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If you can do 'EastEnders,' you can do anything.

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My grandfather was a travelling tinker in Cork.

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I'm just a natural scruff and I don't worry about face lifts and botox.

— David Essex

You don't have to spend a fortune to have a good holiday.

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I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

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It was never my plan to be a teen idol.

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As a boy I was torn between my crushes on Ronnie Spector, Doris Day and the lead singer of The Shangri-Las.

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My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker.

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There was a period of time that I got rather big-headed. It lasted about three weeks.

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I was always a little detached from the 'famous' aspect of it all - fame and fortune was really a peripheral thing,…

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I have always tried to get to tomorrow today. I don't really wallow in what is happening at the moment.

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I don't believe in surgery or any of that stuff: I have earned every grey hair, and I'm proud of it.

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My kids are the best thing ever. They've got different mums, which is just the way things happen sometimes, but they all…

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There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a…

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I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I…

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I remember doing the film 'Silver Dream Racer' in which the English version had me being blown up on the bike and…

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I had a furious row with a certain man in charge about the way they wanted to market me in America. They…

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I suppose my worst holiday was when I visited Gambia in North Africa. Somehow the word got round and before I knew…

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You just have to be professional and show the kind of courtesy and interest in audiences that they have shown in me.…

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As a kid, my family used to go to a holiday camp in either Clacton-on-Sea or the Isle of Sheppey, on the…

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I never planned anything. I never had an image. I was just being me. If it hadn't worked out I would have…

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You know, I feel sorry for the kids on television shows like 'Pop Idol.' They can never be prepared for the kind…

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I was at one of the Krays' clubs, El Morocco. I was singing with Dudley Moore on the piano. Then Ronnie said,…

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I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me.…

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Che was a revolutionary, doctor, author, leader and a global symbol. Growing up in the Sixties, his poster, alongside Jimi Hendrix, would…

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I'm very fond of Cuba and going anywhere off the beaten track.

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I'm fairly frugal. I don't need money for a big pop-star life really.

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I do like babies depending on how they behave.

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Dad was a longshoreman, a docker, and my mother scrubbed pub floors.

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I never really did anything academically.

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I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in Covent Garden.

— David Essex