Jools Holland Quotes

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

But shows like 'The X Factor' are a great showcase but people are not taking it for real music.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.

I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

I don't want to go back to Capital Radio. I don't want to go back to rolling in custard with Sheena Easton and Annie Lennox.

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.