I try to reach out to my idols.
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.
The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols, they were just doing their jobs.
I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.
Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.
Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.
The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.
Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.