Lauren Mayberry Quotes

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to be a superstar. I wanted to be on stage. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away, and you're hit with reality, and you're like, 'Oh, not everyone can be Lil' Bow Wow?' Fine.

Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever.

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

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

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.

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.