I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
6th Baron Byron
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.
When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.
Even primitive areas can produce a superstar.
After a series of failures, to be part of a project like 'Baahubali: The Beginning' is dream-like, and it's easily the most unexpected thing of my career.
I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.
It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe' was a demo. The demo became the hit record, including all the background vocals, which were done by me.
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.
I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.
I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
All of a sudden, my picture's in the paper, or I'm making a music video, and it's still the most surreal experience. I thought you could learn, and you would acclimatise, but I really haven't.
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
Never in my wildest dreams did I set the goal to be the longest-reigning tag-team champion.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
I never expect I would become a K-pop star.
I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.
I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.
How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!
The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.
I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.
My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.
