Quotes About Publicity

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

We've played on 'Saturday Night Live' and got not even a Rolling Stone review.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.

Walking down the street, it's a humbling feeling. Everyone stopping you for photos and autographs, it's real humbling.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, 'Can I have a photo?'

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

Fame is a very strange animal.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.