J. Cole Quotes

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

If you're famous, you're not free.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know.