Kevin Parker Quotes

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

I never wanted to be on a pedestal.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

If people love you, if you're making money, if the performances you have are unlike anything anyone has ever seen, you get put in a position to be the man.

I've never been a person that was concerned about accolades or the media embracing me.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

I'm not a star.

I don't know if fame will come.

Nothing recedes like success.

Fame is a magnifying glass

We never set out to be superstars.

I'm not worried about being a big star.

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

Now when people say, 'Oh, you're going to be such a big star!' I simply don't listen.