Fame Quotes

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away.

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

The image is one thing, and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

Fame attracts lunatics.

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven't slept for three days.