Katie Melua Quotes

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned.

It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

Every time I get my makeup professionally done, I take a photo.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

I buy whatever I need and want for myself.

I don't know what the other celebrity's lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I'm always alone.

I enjoy makeup and having someone who does my hair. What female wouldn't?

I'm normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

I'm pretty spoilt when it comes to having a glam team.

I might be a celebrity but I've still got to have the dosh.

Life is too easy when you're a movie star. People will do anything you want and get you anything you want.

I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?

I mean, in all fairness, in the grand scheme of things, if the greatest inconvenience of my life is that sometimes people want a photo or a chat, then that's extraordinarily lucky. It really bothers me when actors complain about it.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they're going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who's to say they shouldn't have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

You have to learn to get through it yourself, because there are going to be times in your life when there's going to be no one else around but you.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.