Chamillionaire Quotes

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.

I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

I'm not a star.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

I don't know if fame will come.

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

I do not ever want to be a huge star.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.