About Bryan Adams: Bryan Guy Adams is a Canadian singer, musician, producer, actor, social activist, and photographer.
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.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
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'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?
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
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.
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 bette...
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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.
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.
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 only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
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 mus...
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.
Focus on your music and not technology.
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.
