Suzi Quatro Quotes

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.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

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

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

I'd love to be a rockstar.

'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

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

Anybody can be a star with the right song.

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

I've been working at this for a while now, so seeing the success of 'Sweet but Psycho' is kind of mind-blowing, but it's exciting.

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.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later we'd be selling out shows.

The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

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

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I wanted to be a rock star.