David Essex

It's not that I have any general aversion to technology but online banking just seems to be asking for trouble. You can…

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

The British like to pigeonhole you, but I will keep popping out of different holes.

— David Essex

I think I'm a good person.

— David Essex

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

I do like babies depending on how they behave.

— David Essex

I should have put the emphasis on America a little earlier - toured there or done something. But I never did.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I first started going to Kent from the East End, where I was brought up, when I was a very small boy,…

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I think the world would be a richer place if there were less rules and regulations.

— David Essex

I tend to enjoy wherever I am, but in the Seventies I had a hairy time in a town just outside Nashville.…

— David Essex

Brian Wilson's writing and production techniques were landmarks and 'God Only Knows' has to be one of my top 10 recordings.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

Whatever was clean I would wear, and I never pandered to that pop idol thing. But they stuck me in various teenage…

— David Essex

My priority in life has always been family. I actually think children teach you to be a man.

— David Essex

I tend to use my time on holiday being creative rather than switching off which I realise I should do.

— David Essex

I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.

— David Essex

I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I…

— David Essex

I lived in America for a while but England is very much my home, and London especially.

— David Essex

The fans are very loyal. I look into the audience and you can see what is obviously three generations of the same…

— David Essex