Joy Villa Quotes

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.

Every time you achieve something, you want to go after what's next. I'd like to see my own shows grow and someday be a headliner, fill up stadiums.

So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.

Everyone wants to perform.

I always say that my biggest goal is a Grammy, and on the way there I will grab everything that is given.

A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said I made it. Everybody knows who you are now. At that point everything in my life was flawless… I was just overwhelmed, I was happy, I was successful as an artist. I think I was in cruise control – like a little bit of bliss.

I'm pretty much happy with the things that have been handed to me already. Seven albums, eight arena tours ... I think there's nothing I really would look forward to besides winning a Grammy one day if that would happen.

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

Games give you a chance to excel.

It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

Whoever makes big records is a winner to me. Not the person with the mumbo jumbo, or the biggest diss record, or whatever the case may be. In the end of the day, whoever is most successful, whoever puts out a big record, wins the battle.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.