Back when I was single and Guns were on the 'Illusions' tour, chicks were, like, left and right. They were falling over themselves. And I saw the sadness in that. The first six months of that, it's like, 'Killer! Chicks are hot. They're into me.' And then you realize they're not really into you. They're into the guy they saw on the JumboTron.
It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.
We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.
When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.
Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.
The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.
