Gayle King Quotes

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

I'm not a pop star.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

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.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.

Britney Spears is one of my first idol.

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.

I always knew I wanted to be involved in entertainment in some way. But I really can't say I'd be where I am now if I hadn't been on 'American Idol.'

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

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.

Justin Bieber is super talented.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

I'm obsessed with Lady Gaga. I saw her at the Alexander Wang fashion show after-party, and I think she's the nicest person ever.