Quotes About Opinion

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

Critics matter to me.

To me, success means either the audience have to like your movie or the critics have to.

A lot of times the mainstream public loves something, critics will hate it and then they'll think the public is stupid and they're above the public.

I'll never criticize anyone for disliking something I do. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and a critic is being paid for their opinion. And I like movie critics; 97 percent of the ones I meet are awesome.

I'm not sure if I'll make the Europeans feel bad, but I'll say it like this: The U.S. crowd is even better than the European crowd.

The New York crowd is definitely one to voice their opinion. They can be very loud and boisterous.

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.

Republicans don't give a damn about anti-Semitism. They just don't care.

Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.