“Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them.” — Chris Rea Quote

Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

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've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home.

My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

This is what I have always done in my life, just racing and driving cars and go-karts fast.

When my boy has lost 4-0 on a Sunday morning, I'm the Dad in the car saying: 'OK mate, don't worry, we can do this or do that'. When I got in the car after losing a game I sat in the backseat and had to keep my mouth closed.