David Gray
David Gray
David Grayis an English singer-songwriter. Gray released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, the latter two of which also made the Top 17 in the US. White Ladder became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK. Gray has been nominated for four Brit Awards – twice for Best British Male...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 June 1968
book imagine observation
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
music-is
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.
writing emotional thinking
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.
It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.
emotional creative together
In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
emotion
I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.
emotional married problem
I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.
spring world energy
I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.
kissing advertising aids
Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.
blue clouds light
And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...
rain fall gold
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
fall night cities
Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world
I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.