“My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Mid...” — Chris Rea Quote

My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region.

The voice has been my joker card that sometimes has played like an ace and sometimes a joker. When you sing the way I sing, it's impossible to get people to talk about anything else.

I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!

I'd become a corporate rock musician. I worked for 'Chris Rea.' He felt like another person. I even talked about him in the third person.

'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.