Brian Littrell Quotes

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I've never been on the cover of 'Tiger Beat' magazine, let's put it that way. But that's not why you go see Primus. You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

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

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

How can you not like Britney Spears?

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

I'm very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.