Quotes About Recognition

The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

When 'Center Stage' first came out, I had some little girls on an airplane who didn't want to actually talk to me but wanted to talk about me at the top of their lungs. And they took pictures of me while I was sleep. And you know what's the worst part? I get really, really airsick.

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

I can't believe I'm gonna be immortalized in Madam Tussauds! Dream come true.

I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.'

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody.

I wanted to be on the cover of Life magazine.

It's everyone's dream to be on a cover of a magazine - you know what I mean? It's like a dream come true.

When somebody tells me, 'The Source magazine had you in the Top 5 emcees,' I'm like, 'Okay, that's cool.' The other four may not be who I consider dope emcees.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

My mum loves me being in magazines.

I wanted to be on the front cover of golf magazines and I've done that.

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that magnitude? Great, always, but not the same type of music.

All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.'

My main thing is try to be the best I can every week and if I can do that, maybe I can get myself in a situation where people argue about, 'He's in the top five, or top whatever.'

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.