Amy Chozick Quotes

Not too many people know who the editor is.

I don't put my name on stuff.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

Attribution is power.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline.

I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

It's always interesting when people don't know who you are.

I write for 'Self' magazine sometimes.

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.

As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low profile. But on the other hand, I spent 25 years not doing Ghost, where, 20 of those years, I wanted to be nothing but a famous rock musician.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.