Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

People know 'Milkshake' like a jingle, but they don't really know who I am.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.