Craig David‘s absent from acquiring it seven days a 7 days to abstinence 365 days a yr … opening up about celibacy on “The TMZ Podcast” — expressing he’s now on significant of his sport creatively.

Craig — common for generating the intimate anthem “7 Instances” — suggests he nonetheless is celibate … introducing he resolved to do it for the explanation that he wanted to “park” sexual intercourse in favor of spirituality.

Then the bombshell … Craig says he has not absent for a roll in the hay in a lot extra than two decades — a small bit spectacular thinking of the truth that he wrote a song about making like rather substantially every single and each functioning day of the 7 days way back in the day.

Craig claims the tune was extra aspiration than reality … but, adds placing the kibosh on intercourse has shot his creativeness by way of the roof — reaching a peak for the duration of his hiatus.

It would look celibacy’s paying out off … ’cause David’s kicking off his “7 Days Motivation Tour” in Vegas at the Fans & Pals festival Saturday — his extremely very first are living band tour in North The united states in almost 20 a extended time.

The festival’s received a star-studded lineup BTW … Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, Janet Jackson, Gwen Stefani, Ciara, Nelly Furtado, Nas, Ludacris and — the particular person Craig’s keen to see — Usher.

Hear to Craig in the clip … he is a big Usher lover and tells a tale about a prospect encounter in France quite a few years ago.

Bottom line … Craig’s expressing placing sexual intercourse apart has completely been worth it — and, it appears like he’s remaining with spiritual life style selection as he heads on his continent-in depth tour.