In my next life, I’m going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
The cliche of what a rock star is – there’s something elitist about it. I never related to that. I’m an entertainer. I think of it as, you’re performing for people. It’s not a self-glorification thing.
I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.
I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
Being a rock star rocks.
I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big ’70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang ‘Da Do Ron Ron’ to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
I’d like to say that I’m a rock star, but I’m not – I’m honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I’m a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn’t like.
I didn’t have any great talent. I didn’t want to become a rock star or an author.
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn’t want to be that. I didn’t want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn’t like. I didn’t want to be stuck playing ‘Anthem,’ the song everybody liked but I didn’t want to put on the record, for the next five years.
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That’s what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, never mind rock star. He’s so down to earth.
You know, rock stardom… I have a hard time discussing that because I don’t really accept it. It’s not really that tangible. What’s really bizarre is how it’s used as a thing – you know, ‘He’s the rock star of politics,’ ‘He’s the rock star of quarterbacks’ – like it’s the greatest thing in the world.
For years, I’ve had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
It wasn’t a mission to be a rock star. It wasn’t a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
I’ve talked to Bill Clinton – he’s the ultimate rock star; no one’s more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don’t get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.
I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you’ve become an actor because it’s your way of hiding in plain sight, there’s still part of you which has that craving.
There is something in my brain that said if I get Halestorm to a point where people are actually listening to what I have to say, I might as well put out positivity and be that empowering figure that I would have wanted in a rock star.
Bono is my inspiration – not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren’t just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it’s because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.
It’s very tempting for certain generations to say, ‘Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be a rock star,’ or whatever. That’s not what it’s about. Firstly, you’ve got to be in it for the love and the passion that you have for the music, and then you take it from there.
A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it’s the job that has carved my face. It’s the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It’s not me trying to look like this.
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I’ll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
The thing about Prince Harry is that he has no choice. He’s not some egotistical rock star who wants loads of attention. That is his life. He didn’t ask for it, but he just has to deal with it.
Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he’s the rock star, so let him get married first; then I’ll think about myself.
There’s rock n’ roll in hip-hop, there’s rock n’ roll in pop music, there’s rock n’ roll in soul, there’s rock n’ roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that’s rock n’ roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know?
It’s great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting – he’s like a rock star unto himself!
I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
You can’t just be a rock star by rehashing things you’ve seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.
I’m not a rock star writing poetry. I don’t feel like a rock star and I don’t know what one is, actually. I’m a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet.
When Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe.
I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
I think that episode in the third season was great. I’m really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he’s a rock star.
I think – I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I’m – just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.
I don’t wanna be a rock star. I don’t believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I’ve avoided that really well.
In my next life, I’m going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.
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.
My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but dreamt of driving her own car, walking around in jeans and wearing sunglasses, and she did.
There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.
Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
I don’t like the word ‘rock star’ or ‘super star.’ I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn’t give up, long enough that people noticed me.
I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.
To me, those three are the revolutionaries. Richard Pryor was honest, raw. George Carlin was brilliant. He was also deep, fearless. And Sam Kinison was another one who went deeper and he revolutionized the angle of tackling humor with the whole rock star element of yelling and screaming, which was hilarious.
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That’s what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.
I don’t see myself as a rock star. I don’t see myself in that way. I’m interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
What I think is cool about Fender, and what originally drew me to them, was the Fender electric guitar headstock, which I’ve never seen on another ukulele. I feel like a rock star when I’m tuning it.
