You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Kristina is a model. It’s that old rock star meets model cliche.
I wanted to be Jon Bon Jovi and Bono. But I’m not that cool. I don’t need to be. I’m not a rock star. I am who I am.
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star – I’d much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it’s not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called ‘Rock Star,’ which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, ‘Why not play the drums?’
In some ways, I always thought you’re better off behaving like a rock star when you’re a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you’ll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
I feel like at 50 I’ve decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
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’m quite a nurturing person, and I’m more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.
At home, I’m not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.
When you’re starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
If ‘Emotions in Motion’ comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.
It’s weird but I’ve never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I’ve always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.
I’m a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.
It’s like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, ‘Don’t call me that. I don’t think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.
Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a rock star.
Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star – they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We’re very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.
I’ve always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Work-home-work-home, that’s being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party with my fans every night, and people who appreciate the art.
I don’t have the look of a golfer. Do I look like a rock star? I didn’t make it playing guitar so I started playing golf!
Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? ‘Cause I can, I’m a rock star.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.
I’m not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that’s the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
It’s funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: ‘So, what does it take to make it?’ Well, first explain to me what you mean by ‘making it’: Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
You don’t have to be a rock star – if you don’t like the situation you’re in, you don’t have to settle for it.
I’m not a rock star; I’m a soft person.
I just want to be an inspiration. I’m a rock star, I’m Future Hendrix.
You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I’ve always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
I’ve seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!
I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
I know I’m not a rock star.
I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I’ve ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.
Style to me is a mix between rock star chic-quirky-sexy and expressive. I always dress for my body type, as it’s important to highlight your pluses! I like edgy clothes that have character. I usually dress by the mood I’m in – so if I’m in my ripped jeans and leather jacket, you know I’m feeling rebellious!
Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don’t. I’ve just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment.
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.
I’m not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.
I don’t like the term ‘rock star.’
I don’t consider myself a rock star chef, I really don’t. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that’s all I care about. I don’t care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.
I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn’t a model. I’d go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that’s the plan.
Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.
I didn’t appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too – just the ultimate rock star.
Growing up, I’ve always wanted to be a rock star.
I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
There was a difference between the rock ‘n’ roll royalty, the woman who was married to or dating a rock star and the girl that hung out and just wanted sex.
My son ain’t going to be miserable because he’s going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
I wanted to be a rock star.
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I’ll try to bring it to the light if I can.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
I always wanted to be a rock star.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.
If I’d been a rock star, I’d probably now be dead.
I grew up around ’90s, 2000s R&B, which is my favorite. But I’m a rock star.
I was a choir boy at school, then when the choir became less cool, I became a kind of rock star in my own world.
When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid – that’s probably an unfair way to say it – from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.
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.
I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you’re some big shot rock star doesn’t mean you’re immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.
The rock star is dying. And it’s a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
The age of the rock star ended with the passing of physical product, the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-making, the widespread adoption of choreography, and, above all, the advent of the mystique-destroying Internet.
