I knew that these girls who 'loved David Essex' didn't even know me, with all my foibles: they loved an impossible, glossy, unrealistic ideal of me, assembled from the music, the cinema screen and the pages of Jackie magazine. — David Essex Copy Share Image
My mum loved dancing and played the piano and was gregarious. There were Gypsies on her side of the family. Her dad was from Cork and sometimes in summer I'd go there with my mum to meet up with that… — David Essex Copy Share Image
It's not that I have any general aversion to technology but online banking just seems to be asking for trouble. You can have enough… — David Essex Copy Share Image
There was a period of time that I got rather big-headed. It lasted about three weeks. — David Essex Copy Share Image
The British like to pigeonhole you, but I will keep popping out of different holes. — David Essex Copy Share Image
I just write the music I want to - if people like it that's great, if they don't well that's unfortunate. — David Essex Copy Share Image
I should have put the emphasis on America a little earlier - toured there or done something. But I never did. — David Essex Copy Share Image
My kids are the best thing ever. They've got different mums, which is just the way things happen sometimes, but they all get on,… — David Essex Copy Share Image
There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a fairly musical… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I was a… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I first started going to Kent from the East End, where I was brought up, when I was a very small boy, going with… — David Essex Copy Share Image
