Sophie Kinsella Quotes

The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.

I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

Most people know my music but will never read my books.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

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.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

I like the new, cool, swinging Justin Timberlake.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.