Steve Vai Quotes

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

I've never had a very great public life.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

My private life became public.

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.