Vera Lynn Quotes

I never thought that I would have the No 1 song in the world.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

I'm going to reach that No. 1 on Billboard.

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

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

To find out my song made the top 10 was honestly a dream come true. I think it's something that I've dreamed about, and anyone dreams about, their whole life.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.