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" There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen. "

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" I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me. "

" I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. "

" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "

" I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world. "

" If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. "

" I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. "

" At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels. "

" I've got a great collection of photography. "

" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "

" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "

" I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next. "

" I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. "

" I'm a very wealthy man. "

" When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. "

" I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. "

" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "

" I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. "

" I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it. "

" I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. "

" I could never go onstage in denims. "

" The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story. "

" My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. "

" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "

" I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "

" I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day. "

" I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties. "

" I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. "

" The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. "

" There's a lot of hate in the world. "