James Bay Quotes

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

Ed Sheeran? I don't like the fact he gets a lot of stick. I like the fact he works hard, and God knows how much money he pays to the tax man each year.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

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

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

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.

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

I'm not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.

When I came off 'The X Factor,' I wasn't necessarily the biggest thing. I really wasn't.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very successful artist. To me, being successful is selling a lot of records and selling out big venues on tour, and it's not up to anyone else to decide what success is for me.

I can't even believe that anyone's paying to see me. It's so weird that there's a good possibility that at least 10 people I don't know have bought my music.