74 Quotes by Chris Rea

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

I made a lot of money, but you can dangerously let it lead you on. It depends what company you keep.

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

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

My family is the No. 1 priority. Next is the motor-racing season.

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.

I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.

I've given up my Ferrari - the idea of going through my village in a 488... You can't drive them on English roads.