Chris de Burgh Quotes

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I had this dream that you get this record deal, and you're a star, and everybody loves you - but I was a youngster, and it didn't work out that way.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Show business got really tainted for me.