Josie Totah Quotes

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

It was nothing less than a dream come true shooting with Farah Khan.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.

That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

I'm happy in Paris, I'm happy to play with great players and to be part of an ambitious project.

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought 'This is it. I've arrived. I'm going to be an overnight world star.'

My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!'

Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

I've worked so hard for years, and it's just incredible to see my clothes in Dorothy Perkins. I got quite emotional at the launch.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.