Artist Transition Quotes

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I completely understand why labels would be a little bit hesitant to sign somebody coming off of a television show, in their first glance.

I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it.

I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.

I am a musician who started acting.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.