Joe Walsh Quotes

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don't know how many times. It was insane.

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

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

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.'

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very successful artist. To me, being successful is selling a lot of records and selling out big venues on tour, and it's not up to anyone else to decide what success is for me.

I toured all over the world, I have die-hard fans, and I had my dreams come true.

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

We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

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.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

As my career has gone on, I guess I've become more well known. I'm playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you're doing that, you're going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

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 never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.