Elvis Duran Quotes

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.

I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

I love watching new acts find their footing. It's fun to watch them early on in their careers and get a gut feeling about who's going to be a superstar.

You're gonna see me on your TV. You're gonna see me everywhere. I'm gonna be a common household name. Smokepurpp, Lil Purpp. Remember the name.

I came second in 'The Voice of Finland' in 2012 and my career really exploded at home. I had 300 gigs a year.

I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

The bigger your songs get, the bigger the festivals you play at will be, until you make it to Ultra. It happened super quick for me. I'm still in shock, actually. I have to pinch myself a lot.

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.

I always knew I wanted to be involved in entertainment in some way. But I really can't say I'd be where I am now if I hadn't been on 'American Idol.'

I did everything to break in. I even recorded covers of Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill, and put them on Youtube in the hopes that Drake would discover me like he did Justin Bieber.

'X Factor' did a lot for me, but things truly started to take off for me when I went to social media.

I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

My little bro Kendrick Lamar. I've been saying it for the times even when I was on Warner when everybody knew him as K-Dot. I used to tell people all the time, watch when K-Dot step out the box, he's going to be a problem.

We were extremely lucky that someone discovered us as a band and that we got to experience a type of cinderella story.

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.