Quotes About Idols

I always wanted to be on the same court as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

The more you make Jesus the treasure of your heart, the less room there will be in your life for idols.

Man worships the idols he himself creates. But not those that God has made.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

I'm looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially a dream board. It is a school binder that I had put magazine clippings on. It said, 'TV actress, fame, a picture of Halle Berry, a picture of Christina Aguilera.' I was obsessed with both of them.

People I get the most star-struck by are people I've sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up to were Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and people like that.

Growing up, I became a huge fan of Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins. That's where I really started developing my songwriting skills on a personal level.

Film stars and players can be sources of entertainment but never ideals.

While I was passing through the age of "hero-worship" I found myself trying to imitate those whom I most admired. Moreover, I discovered that the element of FAITH, with which I endeavored to imitate my idols, gave me great capacity to do so quite successfully.

We make our heroes out of clay.

I like Chelsea, Milan and Inter. I have always followed the two Italian teams because my role models when I was young were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and they played for those teams.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.

Some people shun the idea of role models but I think it's one of the most important things people have in life - role models, to look up to.

I simply admire Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar.