I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.
I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.
When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly." I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place." Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.
I feel like I've always had gay fans, I don't think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics.
I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.
I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.
I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.
