Quotes from Bryan Adams

I need to be able to rock out.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

I grew up with British rock.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

I never had a long-term plan.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

My father's a character.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Focus on your music and not technology.