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My house is a very calm and beautiful place and is full of positive energy.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.
— Chris de Burgh
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
— Chris de Burgh
I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.
— Chris de Burgh
In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an indoor concert where the audience attention is riveted on to the stage.
— Chris de Burgh
People just love stories.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.
— Chris de Burgh
I am a humanist.
— Chris de Burgh
It's critically important to have family around me, and some of my happiest moments are when I'm just with my family.
— Chris de Burgh
Being hydrated is a key thing for a singer, especially if you're spending three hours on stage five nights a week, and wine dehydrates me faster than beer.
— Chris de Burgh
The first confrontation I had with an Aussie wine was a well-known Cabernet/Shiraz and it reminded me of boiled sweets. I find a lot of Australian wines unsubtle.
— Chris de Burgh
I met someone in the West Indies who was not able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was able to get up. I know the tabloids will get excited by this so I try to play it down.
— Chris de Burgh
Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.
— Chris de Burgh
I know every side of the industry after all these years.
— Chris de Burgh
I have never subscribed to public confessionals.
— Chris de Burgh
I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of the Nativity, literally above the place where Christ was born.
— Chris de Burgh
People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But the spectrum of songs I write and record is vast.
— Chris de Burgh
I would hate to go out as a legend on tour just playing all the back hits.
— Chris de Burgh
I remember talking to an architect and he said 'I am making so much money I don't know what to do' - I am in a business where you don't have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm emotionally untouchable.
— Chris de Burgh
I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.
— Chris de Burgh
My wife and I are rock solid together and, curiously enough, always have been.
— Chris de Burgh
I have found myself able to cure people with my hands.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm not a great meat eater - I eat it twice a week. But I can't stand fish - my mother says it's because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.
— Chris de Burgh
My father fought behind Japanese lines in the second world war and it traumatised him. Everybody who knew him from before said he was the life and soul of the party - fun to be with - but after the war he was different.
— Chris de Burgh
I don't spend much on myself. It's a bit of a joke within the family.
— Chris de Burgh
We are not politically naive.
— Chris de Burgh
I spent a lot of my childhood saying goodbye because I went to boarding school. I didn't resent my parents for sending me there so young as I understood the limitations of the education system in Africa, where we lived at the time.
— Chris de Burgh
I read about wine every day.
— Chris de Burgh
I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!
— Chris de Burgh
I love myself. I'm not saying this in a narcissistic way.
— Chris de Burgh
I think it's the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.
— Chris de Burgh
I developed my armour at prep school. I was the smallest guy in the school. I got bullied a lot. So I developed broad shoulders.
— Chris de Burgh
You get tarred with the brush of 'Lady in Red.' I play Russia or China or places all over the world. They don't even speak English but they know the words. You get a big song like that, and people love it or hate it. And if they don't like it, they don't like anything at all by the artist.
— Chris de Burgh
I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.
— Chris de Burgh
In America, if you say 'Chris de Burgh,' they won't have a clue, but they all know 'Lady in Red.'
— Chris de Burgh
As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a song is strong enough to be performed completely stripped down then it is a good one to go on and record.
— Chris de Burgh
I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.
— Chris de Burgh
Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.
— Chris de Burgh
Canada was one of the first countries that took an interest in my career. Apart from a freak hit I had in South America, Canadians took my 'Spanish Train' album to heart and have stuck with me ever since. They've been very loyal, and it's been a long and rewarding affair.
— Chris de Burgh
Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.
— Chris de Burgh
I know it sounds glamorous, but it was bloody cold growing up in a castle.
— Chris de Burgh
Every generation has to have its heroes.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm a strong believer in the importance of energies - ley lines, energy streams, whatever you wish to call them - within a house. They can affect your health as well as your happiness.
— Chris de Burgh
Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.
— Chris de Burgh
I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.
— Chris de Burgh
I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.
— Chris de Burgh
There wasn't a lot of physical tenderness with my parents. There was plenty of love but we weren't into the hugging thing, which now I've totally reversed with my family to the point where it probably drives them crazy.
— Chris de Burgh
My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found a place without any heat or running water. We had no money, so it was tough.
— Chris de Burgh
I am much loved.
— Chris de Burgh
Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.
— Chris de Burgh
The role of Miss World is one that my daughter has fulfilled to the best of her abilities.
— Chris de Burgh
I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.
— Chris de Burgh
Singing in a restaurant is very demeaning and humiliating but you learn from it, because people aren't there for a show, they're there to eat.
— Chris de Burgh
You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it's a love affair.
— Chris de Burgh
If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have to have a real meaning. There has to be depth.
— Chris de Burgh
I have always had a long term view on records as I want them to be books and not magazines and newspapers that you discard very quickly.
— Chris de Burgh
I find it amazing when I get letters from people in Israel and people in Lebanon and they both love the music, but in real life they hate each other.
— Chris de Burgh
You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to hold an audience from getting bored or restless. One strong way of doing that is the story because everybody will listen to a story.
— Chris de Burgh
I've got a room full of gold and platinum records, a lot of them are Canadian, and I've got a very soft spot for that country.
— Chris de Burgh
It's tough going out as the opening act of a band especially when you're solo.
— Chris de Burgh
It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.
— Chris de Burgh
When you're a solo artist and you're not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you've earned it.
— Chris de Burgh
I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'
— Chris de Burgh
I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.
— Chris de Burgh
Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.
— Chris de Burgh
In my 20s, I got into giving people massages and realised I was able to encourage their bodies to heal by passing my hands over them. I'd never describe myself as a faith healer - it's just that if someone believes in this type of healing, I can help release whatever blockage it is that's preventing them healing themselves.
— Chris de Burgh
Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.
— Chris de Burgh
The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.
— Chris de Burgh
When I'm home I love to get the wellies on and take the dog for a walk.
— Chris de Burgh
I've been travelling all my life.
— Chris de Burgh
I've 300 other songs, but 'Lady In Red' is just one of them. Funnily enough, in America, it is massive, but most people wouldn't have a clue who Chris de Burgh was.
— Chris de Burgh
When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.
— Chris de Burgh
I come from the school of thought that if you want to succeed and stay successful, you've got to put in the hard work at the beginning.
— Chris de Burgh
Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the arts than Americans.
— Chris de Burgh
I struggled for so many years.
— Chris de Burgh
You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.
— Chris de Burgh
I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.
— Chris de Burgh
You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well, take a pair of scissors and cut it about an inch and a half from the bottom and it's absolutely packed with stuff! I do that, then cut off the top bit, so I can stick that back on and it doesn't dry out!
— Chris de Burgh
I regularly visualise my body from head to toe, and wait for it to tell me if there's anything wrong.
— Chris de Burgh
After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.
— Chris de Burgh
Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I couldn't read or write music - I still can't - I taught myself to play the guitar and piano by listening to songs and working out the chords.
— Chris de Burgh
I've been to Australia, Russia and many of places I wanted to see as a child. But I've never visited India. I've had many invitations to play there but it hasn't worked out. People say it's beautiful, but I think I'd react badly to the poverty.
— Chris de Burgh
A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.
— Chris de Burgh
When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.
— Chris de Burgh
When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought 'This is it. I've arrived. I'm going to be an overnight world star.'
— Chris de Burgh
I studied French and English literature because I liked it.
— Chris de Burgh
I can rock along with the best of them.
— Chris de Burgh
I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.
— Chris de Burgh
I am happy in my own skin.
— Chris de Burgh
My mother was actually a breeder, believe it or not, and she used to name horses after some of my songs.
— Chris de Burgh
I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.
— Chris de Burgh
I always bring divining rods when I'm on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
— Chris de Burgh
If you love yourself there's plenty left for everyone else. You just have to deflect natsy things.
— Chris de Burgh
I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.
— Chris de Burgh
Quite simply, to win Miss World is not a ticket to millions and I've read that so many times.
— Chris de Burgh
Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.
— Chris de Burgh
I'm very good to my wife. I never go home.
— Chris de Burgh
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