Quotes About Fame

As far as my goals are concerned, Eli Drake needs to be a household name any and everywhere it can be. Aside from that I want to rack up championships.

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I think a knockout over Elkins will really put me on the radar internationally.

Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with the music industry. I loved the idea of being able to express myself creatively - but the rest of it never really sat well with me.

I try to remain under radar as much as I can. In our line of work, whatever we do makes news, and with social media, people comment on everything. When it comes to love, the day I get married, I will tell the world about my wife.

I've never been interested in the whole fame game; the headlines when I was disqualified in 1995 for hitting a ball girl were more than enough to make me want to keep my head under the radar.

As a cricketer you can go under the radar. It's not like we're footballers who get papped everywhere. I can go down to the corner shop without getting hassled.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.