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Interscope CEO talks getting into fights with Selena!
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"There’s a difference between being famous me being successful. Because I wasn’t on a fragrance thing or on a cover of that, people were like, “She’s a mess, look at her; she’s a failure’. I couldn’t get in the room for anything in film, because I was in a tabloid. And for that? It made no sense to me."
"I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn’t going to let them get to me. I could have said, ‘Put me on every billboard and pimp my name out until I have nothing else left and I’m done’."
"I went through a really hard break-up, and it was awful because it was super-exposed. I didn’t feel like a real person anymore. I was sick of my myself. I just needed to stop and feel everything I needed to feel…I realized all the pleasing and whatever I was doing wasn’t getting me anywhere."
"Every agent and every manger thinks they know better, but ultimately, you get to the place where I feel like I’ve been. Authenticity is my life. They make great choices, but I make the decisions."
"I walked into every single one of those rooms, and not one person helped me make those decisions. I had to not be afraid to ask dumb questions, which means I asked a million things about every single step that I was making."
— Selena talking about getting a new manger, agent and label
"My label thought I wanted a free vacation, so that was a fun conversation."
— Selena talking about when she wanted to go to Mexico to record her album
"She absolutely took charge. She and I got into bigger fights than I’ve ever gotten into with any artists I’ve ever worked with, but I was all healthy. She is so passionate about what she wanted, sometimes she was just fighting got it so hard. She made the decision that she wanted to, and that’s why the al in is so great. There have been many opportunities to take shortcuts that she chose not to take, because she wanted to stand on her own two feet."
— John Janick, the CEO of Interscope Records
"I finally just wanted to go for it. I wanted to do things that I knew where going to be me. I don’t want people to look at me as someone who is just this celebrity person."
"She’s earning it. For a kid her age to understand Jay fame without accomplishment a empty incredible. She’s accomplished a lot, but it would be easy for her to fall prey to all the thrills and craziness of fame. If you’re Selena Gomez, you could just make tens of millions of dollars doing what you’ve already done. But the idea that she is pushing herself so hard is the sign at she has an artistic will."
— Rob Burnett
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