Fame Quotes

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

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.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

At 13 years old, you know you're a big star. OK, fine, but I want to go and watch Huckleberry Hound.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.