Lily Allen Quotes

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.

All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite' with Travis Scott.

So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

I am getting all this fame, but I don't absolutely know what I should rap about.

When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.