Craig David Quotes

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

There's no future in being poor.

I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Money is the great leveler.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships - it means so much to her after all that she's been through.

I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had loads and loads of cash. I realised that this was a great opportunity to do what I love for a living. I was going to tournaments up and down the country and I was able to win anything from five to seven thousand pounds.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.

I want all Latinos to know the American dream is alive. I believe in economic liberty. I believe there's no demographic more suited to achieving the American dream than Latinos.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.