Linda Thompson Quotes

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.