Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

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.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

Never in my life have I thought, 'Man, I gotta get a Grammy.'

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

I have the stardom glow.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.