Katie Melua Quotes

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It's ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it's something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don't mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it's not the only way to go.

We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless - Jade Goody, all that type of people - and it really gets to me. I'm not interested, I'm a musician. It's not about being famous and being a celeb.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'