Quotes About Idolization

I know what it's like to scream when you see Justin Timberlake in person because I've done it.

I am the biggest Kanye and Jay Z fan.

I love Kanye.

I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

I love Karl Malone.

I listened to R. Kelly growing up.

I listen to Kenny Loggins, like - I want to be Kenny Loggins.

I think anybody would want to be compared to Kevin Durant.

When I was young, I thought Kim il-Sung or Kim Jong-il is hero.

Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded like a chick, and I wanted to figure out how to do it, and I did.

Huge Kobe fan growing up. My dog's name is Kobe.

In my head, I'm a big Kobe fan.

Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him.

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.

It didn't take me long to figure it out: I didn't want to meet the Beatles. I wanted to BE the Beatles.

O. J. Simpson drew bigger crowds, but most of his admirers were around 12 years old. Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau's garnishee file.

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

I adored my brother when I was younger, so I wanted to do everything he did.

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting to be like him, wanting to play on the team with him and watching those older guys in my neighborhood play sports.

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

I think, hands down, the number one person I would love to have in a video is Beyonce. I think the perfect video for me - I could die happy and I could never make a YouTube video again - would be to do a video called 'Bey-Oz-ce' and mix 'The Wizard of Oz' and Beyonce together because those are my two favorite things in the world.

I can't do tricks, but I absolutely loved trying, and one of my fondest memories growing up was trying to imitate Ronaldinho and do his dance.

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.