Chely Wright Quotes

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

You never know what ultimately will give traction to being a star.

I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.

My whole life, I've always tried to be a star.

I got a call for 'Aaya Na Tu' the same day that Forbes featured me in their list of 30 under 30. That day, I knew I had established myself as more than just a singer.

I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

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

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.