I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton's scales - when he comes off a high note and it's time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest,… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
