Jay Ryan Quotes

I always believed I would be a star.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

I always aimed at being a legend.

I'm one win away from being a superstar.

It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.

Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.

So, I do not work towards fame but if it happens to me, I won't say no.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought 'This is it. I've arrived. I'm going to be an overnight world star.'

I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.

Going to Broadway - then to be invited to the Tonys - I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals.

I always said that I want to sell out Madison Square Garden before I turn 21.