I could never get up and do a concert of three-minute numbers and take myself seriously. I leave that to other people. — 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
I once travelled through India by myself, staying in really basic places. I've never minded 'slumming it.' — David Essex Copy Share Image
Whatever was clean I would wear, and I never pandered to that pop idol thing. But they stuck me in various teenage… — David Essex Copy Share Image
When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I never liked the idea of a fan club, and although I occasionally wrote a letter for mine to send out, I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
The media attention doesn't faze me. I'm always writing and performing somewhere, so I never feel like I've been totally out of… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I was always a little detached from the 'famous' aspect of it all - fame and fortune was really a peripheral thing,… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I never planned anything. I never had an image. I was just being me. If it hadn't worked out I would have… — 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
