Darlene Love Quotes

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will.

I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.