Seal Quotes

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

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 wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

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.

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.

Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it's an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that's a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I'll make my way up to that.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

I never thought that I would have the No 1 song in the world.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.

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

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.