But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.
I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.
I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.
I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.