I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Water is my drink.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I love the sea.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.