“I tend to enjoy wherever I am, but in the Seventies I had a hairy time...” — David Essex Quote

I tend to enjoy wherever I am, but in the Seventies I had a hairy time in a town just outside Nashville. Someone from our band had misbehaved and the local sheriff turned up waving a gun, so we had to crawl out of the hotel window to make a dash for it.

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

For me the 60s was important because I was a teenager then and the bands then were the influences.

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

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

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.