Karen Morley Quotes

It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!

I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'

I'm not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.

It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.

In my hometown, people I didn't even know started to recognize me: 'Oh, you're that kid that's doing well over there in Europe and with the national team!'

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

It's not easy to be an All-Star, but it's even more difficult to be loved by so many people and have so many people have your back, especially a guy coming from a small country like Georgia.

David Cameron has given one of my paintings to President Obama. It's quite mad, really. But it's OK. It's not the kind of recognition I seek or get every day, but Cameron seems quite a positive kind of guy and Obama's a dude. I would probably have had issues if it had been for Bush.

Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I've also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.

I was as popular as you can be - All-NBA, Olympian. You couldn't get any higher than where I was.

There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.

My song 'Afreen Afreen' which I performed with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was the most international heard track and it received over 93 million views. So, with every new season Coke Studio is doing a great job.

When you're famous, you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for influence.

Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.

I think our choreography, which is easy to follow, played a huge role in achieving fame in Japan.

I played the Azteca Stadium in Mexico to 100,000 people - that's something I never thought I'd do.

To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

Once I became more famous, I was proud that people in Asia started to look towards me.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

I think I'm very fortunate to have a pan-Indian appeal.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.