Bryan Adams Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

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

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 need to be able to rock out.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

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

I think all my videos suck.

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

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

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

I moonlight as a singer.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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 pack every minute I can with something to do.