“I recommend walking in Whitstable as it is a compact town. People also...” — David Essex Quote

I recommend walking in Whitstable as it is a compact town. People also take fishing trips from the harbour, but boats and I don't get on that well!

It was never my plan to be a teen idol.

Whatever was clean I would wear, and I never pandered to that pop idol thing. But they stuck me in various teenage magazines and it developed from there.

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

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

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

I love watching the fishermen step off their boats and lay out their catch - typically sardines, monkfish and everything you'd find in bouillabaisse.

The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn't very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.