Chesney Hawkes Quotes

My dad was in the Tremeloes.

Over the years I’ve worked in everything from R&B, pop, country to rock ‘n’ roll to heavy rock, alternative… if there’s one thing that my manager tells me off for, it’s that I am a little too eclectic, that I have trouble focusing.

Kristina is a model. It’s that old rock star meets model cliche.

Before I knew it, we were No. 1 all over Europe and in the U.S. Top 10. We were living the dream, girls camped outside the house and everything.

I’ve heard about Honey G and there’s always someone like that who gets through. It’s a little bit of politics involved in that with ‘The X Factor’ which I’m not a big fan of but at the end of the day it’s a TV show.

Well I do like to give myself a challenge.

In fact one of the main reasons I head out to Los Angeles quite a bit is because they have the most amazing sushi bar in the world.

I’ve done panto down the years, I love that. So never say never for anything.

My day job these days is I am writing, producing and developing young artists here in the States, in between working on my own stuff.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

I’ve never really been that into cars. Maybe I just thought that’s what pop stars do. They buy flash cars. I was just playing it up a bit, being flash.

I am gutted not to be taking part in ‘Dancing on Ice.’ I was having a brilliant time and couldn’t wait to finally be skating live on national TV!

My kids are the most important thing in my life.

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.

I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I’ve been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of different artists.

I remember there was days when I would do six, seven countries in a day, you’d just be flying around and I’d get up in the morning and not know what I was doing. In one day I’d fly to Belgium and then off to Sweden and then do a gig in Leeds, I literally didn’t know what I was doing from day to day.

I don’t have anything against reality TV.

It really was… my life was not my own, put it that way. It was fun, I was only 19 at the time but it was crazy, it was really, really crazy and people camped outside my parents’ house and it was a nutty time, really crazy and I’m glad I don’t have that right now.

It’s when you think too much is when it all goes wrong.

My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I’m not on the road I’m in my studio.

I’m sure I was a cocky git.

I bought everyone in my family a car, I bought my mum a convertible Mercedes. I bought a studio at a ridiculous cost – just insane.

When I look back at old footage of me back in the early ’90s, it almost looks like a cartoon character, or something.

I think that probably the most important thing in a career is not to believe your press and not to take yourself seriously.