Quotes About Relevance

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it's ability.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.

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

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

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

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.

People spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies that don't do anything. I mean, no one's talking about 'Pacific Rim' today. No one's talking about 'The Lone Ranger,' and those were $100 million movies that didn't have nearly the impact that 'Sharknado' did.

The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back.

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying something.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations.

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.