Top 125 Pop Star Quotes

I never wanted to be a pop star.

I’d love to be a pop star – at heart.

It will shock many – I’ve lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

In Asia, I didn’t feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I must say, I don’t feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Because I’m no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I’m no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don’t bruise easily any more.

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that’s all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late ’80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.

It’s no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you’ve got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I’m married to a pop star.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, ‘I’m gonna be a pop star,’ and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

Part of being a pop star is image. I’m told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that – the image and the beauty and the curly locks – I would have been a ‘normal’ pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record.

I was very ambitious in my dream of being a pop star.

As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.

You better believe I’m not a pop star.

I know I’m never going to be a big pop star, because I’m not willing to conform.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

My dad was basically my manager from ages 13 to 16. I was on this train towards becoming a child pop star. Not that I would have necessarily become a star, but that was the goal.

There are many pop stars who are great performers – but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.

David Bowie, who spent most of the ’70s establishing himself as a master of psychological disguises, is spending the ’80s trying to convince us that he’s just a regular fella – or at least as close to one as a millionaire pop star can be.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‘Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!’

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.

I’ve read every Madonna biography. I’ve also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can’t be scared.

I’m a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I’m one of those girls who don’t give the mic away. It’s a problem. I’m a closeted pop star.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like… why wasn’t I doing that? It’s not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it’s because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can’t see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

It’s no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you’ve got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

I’m masquerading as an innocent pop star.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star… which, ahem, didn’t exactly work out.

I like to think of myself as the people’s pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I’m just not that – as much as I’d love to have that sort of mystique, I think I’m kind of an open book.

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don’t expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you’re a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

You realise that people do things differently to each other and, more and more, I realise that there’s no right or wrong. You can be a pop star and singing cabaret, and the entertainment of it is your flamboyance, it is your attitude.

I’m not that beautiful, and I don’t want to be a pop star.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

I used to feel it was too late for me; I’d had my shot. You couldn’t make a pop star out of me.

I’d be a pop star. Although, I was once sat front row at a Rihanna concert when she came down to the audience and sat on my lap, pointed the microphone towards my mouth, and I couldn’t sing a line.

The guys that do have the confidence to hit on me are not necessarily my type, but they think they are because I’m a pop star; I sing songs, do movies. I like to feel sexy and confident on stage.

When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in ‘Unconditional Love,’ it was just singing for singing’s sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.

My whole point is like, well, if I’m the pop star, then it should be whatever I am. There’s, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Ke$has and me and Pinks. I think what’s great about all of us is that we represent something different.

Most people I know think that I’m crazy – but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn’t think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star – a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Most people I know think that I’m crazy – but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn’t think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star – a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

In Asia, I didn’t feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.

I’ve even become kind of well-known for taking on some bullies online. One of the most notable is the pop star Azealia Banks.

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.

I’m a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I’m one of those girls who don’t give the mic away. It’s a problem. I’m a closeted pop star.

I don’t know what record company would sign a 45-year-old former 80s pop star.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn’t have the pop star look.