Quotes About Recognition

If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna know my voice for singing. But if I call you on the phone - 'What's up? Are we still doing the interview today?' - you're not gonna know who this is.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.

For me, I want to make sure every single day I wake up and give thanks for everything that I've been given in life.

I am not one who needs to be patted on the back every single day and told I am brilliant. Some players need that, I don't.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

I want every single person to like my work.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

There's no expectations at all. Every single person that turns up to a show, you really appreciate them. Every single radio interview you do - everything.

I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.

There have been a lot of great players through the years who have played at UCLA. I hate to be singled out while other guys are being left out of that kind of group.

I got recognition because of film music, but people start recognizing me as an artiste more because of singles.

I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

People know my song but they don't know the guy who sings the song.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

When a guy like Elvis sings your song, well, you know Elvis didn't cut any junk. People thought, 'This must be a good writer.'

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.