Bryan Adams Quotes

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Focus on your music and not technology.

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.

I moonlight as a singer.

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

If you love animals, don't eat them.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.

People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Oh, thinkin' about all our younger years There was only you and me We were young and wild and free Now nothin' can take you away from me We've been down that road before But that's over now You keep me comin' back for more.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

My father's a character.

When you can see your unborn children in her arms, you know you really love a woman.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I think all my videos suck.