Tom Anderson Quotes

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.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

You can't buy being a rock star.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

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 you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

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.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

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

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

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.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.