Quick Rise Quotes

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.

It's happened so quickly, starting at Tottenham, playing for England.

I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

I never imagined my career would take off this fast.

I've seen a lot of people burn very brightly and very quickly, and I think you can become overindulgent sooo quickly in this business, and so I try not to fall into any of the trappings that would affect me very negatively.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.