"I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.“


-Johnny Mathis

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I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

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