Quotes About Fame

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

I'd sold more records than any other person in history with one album, at that point, in '76. It became a very scary place for me, because I didn't know whose advice to ask and lost my confidence in my own gut feelings about everything.

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've seen very little of that.

The first record blew up and sold really well. 'City of Black & White' didn't sell as well, and that's when you wonder, 'Did I peak already?'

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.

There was a time when the directors would sign me first and then go to the hero. There was a time when on my name a film used to be sold.

I've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.

I've never sold a lot of records.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

I just fooled around in front of the camera and earned money for it. Every policeman, every soldier, every nurse - they all do more for society. I just rent my face.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.

Post 'Kick,' I was flooded with offers. The film has given me a solid fan base even in Dubai and Bahrain.

Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid.

There was a danger when I was in So Solid and we made '21 Seconds.' But we're just showing a slice of life.

I was here all the time doing good films like 'Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,' 'Kurukshetra' and 'Khiladi 420' but since they weren't solid hits, people didn't talk about them much.

We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.

I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.