Music Superstar Quotes

There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself 'how could this happen?' I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world - and it came true - and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world - and it came true.

Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

Everybody knows who Reba is. She has one name, for goodness sakes! There's only, like, six people in the world that have one name.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

I'd love to open for Bieber. It would be awesome; that would definitely be the crowd I would want to play to.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.

I'm obsessed with Beyonce. She's just effervescent, I love her.

Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

Meeting Bono was definitely a highlight of my life!

PSY is a legend. I am just proud that a world star has risen from Korea and that a longtime friend was met with such astounding success.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

I saw him at the club and one of his friends was like, 'You're gonna meet Justin' and I just remember - everyone knows Justin Bieber, right? Everyone grew up, at least I grew up, listening to his music. I know all about him, I was so nervous.

All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.