Top 100 Pop Star Sayings
#1. A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Tove Lo
#2. Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Amy Winehouse
#3. It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
Bonnie Tyler
#4. No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Peter Tork
#5. I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.
Justin Townes Earle
#6. Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.
Robbie Williams
#7. One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.
Chris Lowe
#8. What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.
Candice Accola
#9. I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
Rachel Stevens
#10. Pop culture was the new religion. The era of the matinee idol was long gone. At the forefront of all things cool was the pop star, the rock artist. They were the new gods, and to be in a band, to be part of it all, was like joining an international religion, becoming part of a holy order.
Erich Rautenbach
#11. I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star ... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
Sophie Kinsella
#12. You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.
Lester Bowie
#13. The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
Randy Jackson
#14. I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.
Nicki Minaj
#15. It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
Belinda Carlisle
#16. I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
Marina And The Diamonds
#17. I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
Dhani Harrison
#18. When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Madonna Ciccone
#19. The thought crossed my mind that this could be dangerous. Not the ill-advised sex with the just-out-of-his-teens pop star, but the cuddling. The lying there, drinking in his scent, watching his chest rise and fall, allowing myself to bask in my own happiness. I could fall in love this way.
Robinne Lee
#20. Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
Rachel Stevens
#21. She just shook her head and pulled out a small bottle of some random pop star's signature perfume, spritzing me with the sickly-sweet smell.
"Oh, come on Ash, that smells like a unicorn fart," I cried, recoiling at the overpowering, candylike smell.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#22. The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
Brian Eno
#23. I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
Brian Eno
#24. I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
Eric Whitacre
#25. When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.
Niecy Nash
#26. I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing" ... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing' ...
Robbie Williams
#27. When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.
Beyonce Knowles
#28. I want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
Scott Eastwood
#29. I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.
Bonnie Raitt
#30. I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.
Ashley Madekwe
#31. I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
Kaskade
#32. Of course every girl wishes she could be one of those pop star babes who wave their hands in the air yelling about being survivors but when love sits on one side of you and loneliness on the other, it's hard to stop the touching and the kissing.
Lisa O'Donnell
#33. He even pinched himself, just to make sure he'd actually woken up this morning to a pop star in his arms, a Bear on his front steps, and now, God in his backseat.
Amy Harmon
#34. There were so much affairs of me created by the media ... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Gabriela Sabatini
#35. I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.
Jerrod Carmichael
#36. A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.
Tom Felton
#37. I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.
Madonna Ciccone
#38. I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?
Neneh Cherry
#39. I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.
Bruno Mars
#40. Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula
#41. When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie
#42. A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.
Taryn Manning
#43. My whole point is like, well, if I'm the pop star, then it should be whatever I am. There's, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Ke$has and me and Pinks. I think what's great about all of us is that we represent something different.
Kelly Clarkson
#44. This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.
Marina And The Diamonds
#45. You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Ciccone
#46. I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
Gabrielle Aplin
#47. I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.
Mo Rocca
#48. I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
James Blunt
#49. Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.
Shawn Amos
#50. I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!
Charli XCX
#51. Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.
Jessica Simpson
#52. Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
Alison Moyet
#53. I want to look classy and sophisticated. For the "Running" video, I wanted to make a bit of a statement and to be slightly over-the-top. I'm not taking the piss out of myself, but I'm not taking myself too seriously, either. I'm just having fun and trying to pretend I'm a pop star, really.
Jessie Ware
#54. Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.
Michael Hutchence
#55. In Asia, I didn't feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.
Chloe Bennet
#57. I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Edward De Bono
#58. When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.
Brie Larson
#59. We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.
Peter Menzel
#61. I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
George Michael
#62. So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' ... And little do they know that that's why I look so insane ... I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
Eli Roth
#63. I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.
Katy Perry
#64. I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
Sufjan Stevens
#65. Once, I told a bitchy pop star that Luke had given me a case of rhododendrons. Just to see what would happen. She freaked out, and
Nicole Christie
#66. I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.
Bonnie McKee
#67. She's the hottest pop star since Madonna. I'm gonna break it to you gently, Cuz. You have less than nothing in common. There's more chance of you walking on the moon than claiming her as your Mate. And she's human. Don't you need to mate with a wolf?
Sofia Grey
#68. I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
Rachel Platten
#69. I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.
George Harrison
#70. People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.
Jamie Redknapp
#71. I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Ciccone
#72. You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.
Kim Wilde
#73. I'm not looking to be the greatest pop star of all time. I want to be an artist. I want to influence people and I want to get people to think about the world, to think and talk to each other and connect. To challenge one another.
Jillian Hervey
#74. The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.
Lady Gaga
#75. I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
Neneh Cherry
#76. If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
Alison Moyet
#77. The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
Kelly Clarkson
#78. I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.
Ricky Gervais
#79. There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
Kelis
#80. Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.
Phil Daniels
#81. I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!
Katherine Jenkins
#82. I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.
Bryan Greenberg
#83. As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
Adam Levine
#84. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever ... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.
FKA Twigs
#85. I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
Boy George
#86. I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
James Blunt
#89. Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
Michael Stipe
#90. How many exes do you have? You're like a fame-whore, female pop star gone wild after she left her sock puppets show for more mature gig.
Rea Lidde
#91. I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
Jenna Dewan
#92. It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
Larry Mullen
#93. Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert
#94. If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber
#95. I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
Lisa Marie Presley
#96. Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down.
Jeremy Scott
#97. The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
Kelly Clarkson
#98. I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.
Nipsey Hussle
#99. Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
Natalie Maines
#100. I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.
Thom Yorke
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