Quotes About Recognition

At a Metro station, I got called out by my character name - Meera - and I realised that I had started responding to that quite intuitively. It was quite a funny moment.

I think 'Sound of My Voice' was the first film where suddenly I could point to something I had done that I was proud of and say, 'Look at this piece of work.' And that's probably what led to 'Fruitvale Station,' which was the real break.

I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.

When I go to the gas station or the restaurant, people still come up and say hi.

The first time I ever had a song play on a legit radio station, I think I was about 13. It was a song of mine that I had written called 'Young Blood.'

I got told that Elton John might be ringing me - it was for his radio station - then he ended up calling and saying that he loves what I'm doing, my music.

Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

FM stations still play songs from 'Birugaali,' 'Patre Loves Padma,' 'Sanchari' and 'Dheemaku' and people love them. But since the films failed, hardly anybody remembers that I scored the music for these films.

I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names - how can I say this? - the name plays more than the statistics.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.

I had never imagined that one day, my statue would be installed at Madame Tussauds.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.