I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.