David Essex

I'm fairly frugal. I don't need money for a big pop-star life really.

— David Essex

I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

— David Essex

It was never my plan to be a teen idol.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

I have always tried to get to tomorrow today. I don't really wallow in what is happening at the moment.

— David Essex

I don't believe in surgery or any of that stuff: I have earned every grey hair, and I'm proud of it.

— 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

As a boy I was torn between my crushes on Ronnie Spector, Doris Day and the lead singer of The Shangri-Las.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker.

— 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

What worries me about modern society is how inhibited it is. I'd like to see more eccentrics and more freedom, less surveillance…

— David Essex

I had a furious row with a certain man in charge about the way they wanted to market me in America. They…

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I suppose my worst holiday was when I visited Gambia in North Africa. Somehow the word got round and before I knew…

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

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I remember doing the film 'Silver Dream Racer' in which the English version had me being blown up on the bike and…

— David Essex

You just have to be professional and show the kind of courtesy and interest in audiences that they have shown in me.…

— David Essex

As a kid, my family used to go to a holiday camp in either Clacton-on-Sea or the Isle of Sheppey, on the…

— David Essex

I've got three sons, so I can understand that father-son relationship to a certain extent. There's always that lack of communication through…

— David Essex

To sacrifice personal freedom to gain creative freedom is a fair enough price.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy…

— 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 played for West Ham juniors and thought I'd become a professional footballer.

— David Essex

I like active and interesting holidays - I'm not a sun worshipper at all.

— David Essex

I got where I am through a series of flukes - I'm basically a musician and a writer, not a pop star.

— David Essex

You have a responsibility towards the people besotted with you, they don't know the real you, so to take advantage of that…

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

I always tip because I think waiters and waitresses are paid peanuts. But I only give 10pc.

— David Essex

Family is very important to me and has become more so as I've got older.

— 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

Whitstable Castle has some lovely gardens that are certainly worth a look.

— David Essex

Interviews can be interesting. A bit like going to a psychiatrist, you know?

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

It's always a plus when there's something going on in a woman's mind as well as looking good.

— David Essex

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

— David Essex

Love and friendship are really the key, I believe, to a relationship - although I can't claim to be an expert!

— David Essex

My ears used to ring for about two hours after a concert from all the high-pitched screaming.

— David Essex