Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.