Chad Gilbert Quotes

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.

I enjoy letting my fans into my world.

I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

I love when fans recognize me. Most of the time they don't have the guts to come up, so I'm like, 'Come here, say hi! I don't bite!'

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

I do a lot of meet-and-greets with the people, and I do 'sign shows' where I meet people and sign autographs.

You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.

I love meeting the fans, and I love shaking hands, and that's what it's all about. It really is.

That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.

She has a lot of Team Minaj soldiers, and they ride for her. She's genuinely about her fans; she just makes sure that she answers questions, and plays around with them.

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.