Eric Nam Quotes

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.

I'm just thankful for gigs.

'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.

This is my dream. I've been doing this since I was a kid, and I've been blessed to work and be a working actor, and there's not a day that goes by that I'm not thankful for that, but my priorities have definitely shifted.

Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.

I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

I achieved my one and only dream, which was to debut as a singer.