Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

In opera as with any performing art to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I know there are people if I go into a market or a city for the first time there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine it gets them in the door but then it's my job to give them something different.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Because you know when you first become famous you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song but for me it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual even exceptional family but the effect was different on each of us.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society but on behalf of personality.