Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Leif Garrett.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Leif Garrett is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and television personality. He worked as a child actor, then in the 1970s became famous as a teen idol in music. He later received much publicity for his drug abuse and legal troubles.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.
Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others
You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.