Denis Leary Quotes

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

I grew up in this industry. I've seen fame up close.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

I wouldn't necessarily be star-struck. I haven't been yet. But I don't know what happens in the future - maybe one day I will be. You never know.

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.