Holly Johnson Quotes

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

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'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.

Even though you might believe you have the best product on the market or the best film in a really long time, not everyone will agree. The film may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you have to have great publicity to back it up.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.

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

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

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.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.