Natalie Maines Quotes

I would love to be a pop star!

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Britney Spears is one of my first idol.

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

I'm not a pop star.

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

I like the new, cool, swinging Justin Timberlake.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.

I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be Yo Yo Honey Singh, the rock star.

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

I was very ambitious in my dream of being a pop star.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.