David Essex

Change is a stimulant for me.

— David Essex

I am a nice person I think.

— David Essex

My drive was not to get fame.

— David Essex

I hate pretension.

— David Essex

I think I'm a good person.

— David Essex

I came from music really.

— David Essex

I've just never stopped working.

— David Essex

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.

— David Essex

My grandfather was a travelling tinker in Cork.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I was always quite shy so I became a drummer.

— David Essex

I started in blues bands when I was 15.

— David Essex

I was never one of those people who was desperate to be famous.

— David Essex

I have to confess that I am not a big book reader.

— David Essex

I once travelled through India by myself, staying in really basic places. I've never minded 'slumming it.'

— 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

I lived in a workhouse with my mum. Our room was a curtained cubicle and my dad lived in another wing.

— 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 thought if I played the drums I could at least hide behind the cymbals if I was no good.

— David Essex

I like 'EastEnders,' yes. If I didn't respect the show, I wouldn't have gone into it.

— David Essex

I'm a bit of a Renaissance man. Or you could say I have a short attention span. I'm always thinking, what shall…

— 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 was the drummer hiding behind the cymbals. By the time fame came along, I'd worked in the business for a decade,…

— David Essex

For a scruffy London kid like me the sights and sounds of the countryside, the wind on your face, was a different…

— 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

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

— David Essex

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

I recommend walking in Whitstable as it is a compact town. People also take fishing trips from the harbour, but boats and…

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I'm not a natural extrovert and go to showbizzy things.

— David Essex

I do like babies depending on how they behave.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I never really did anything academically.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex