Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.
Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.
People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that's not necessarily true.
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.
I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
You cannot make a teenage idol.
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.
I might be a celebrity but I've still got to have the dosh.
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
