Zayn Malik Quotes

When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that.

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.

It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

My iPhone was blowing up with notifications that I had became a superstar overnight. It changed my life and I was hiding after that to avoid unnecessary talk.

I would have never thought that somebody like me from the small country of Bulgaria could make it in WWE.

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.