Jack Antonoff Quotes

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do.

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

Backstreet has been around a long time. Normally, groups like us have a shelf life of two to four years. We always wanted to have a long stay in the music world.

In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

In country, you can grow old with your fans. You can still do shows when you're 70.

I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really stupid songs about nothing. But I want to have a career that's long-lasting, and I don't think people want to listen to a straight-up comedy rapper all the time.