Ryan Tedder Quotes

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

One good thing about not having any clout is that all this money didn't come in and try to buy me.

I don't need the fame or power.

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

I do not want fame.

I don't care about being famous.

I don't need to do or say things to place me in a position where I look a bit cooler.

I enjoy having a large audience, but I don't do anything special to attract them.

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

I have my life. I have my values. And compared with much of society, especially football, that is radical.

I'm the prime example of it; think about it, you know. My whole career has blown up by genuine people power.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live.