Bryan Adams Quotes That Are rock, pop and iconic

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.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things;

they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind.

There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

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

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved.

Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.

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

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 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.

Oh - once in your life you find someone Who will turn your world around Bring you up when you're feelin' down Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me Oh there's lots that I could say But just hold me now Cause our love will light the way

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.

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.

I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela.

He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

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

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

With few words, one can speak the truth.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

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 swear, I wanna be your underwear.

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

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

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

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

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.

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

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

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.

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?

Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

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.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

I never had a long-term plan.

If you love animals, don't eat them.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

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

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I need to be able to rock out.

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

I grew up with British rock.

I moonlight as a singer.

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