Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.

I don't have to be a star - I don't have to be famous.

I am a much bigger star than Kane.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Fame creeps up on you.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.

I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

Since becoming a global star, if I may say so, I feel six feet tall.

I'm not a shiny pop star.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

Once you are accepted as a star, as a good artiste, nothing else matters.