Bonnie Tyler Quotes

In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.

People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It's dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that's the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.