Quotes About Relevance

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

The difference between Justin Trudeau and myself is I have had real world experience. I haven't just read books on the middle class and what life is like for them. I've lived it.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

If you don't produce the goods, you're very quickly forgotten.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

Speaking theoretically, in a completely made-up world where 'Will & Grace' is coming back to NBC for 10 episodes - just in that made-up world - it couldn't be a better time. I think more so now than even when we started! And who would have ever - I mean, it's heinous that it's because Donald Trump is the president-elect.

To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.

Donald Trump has a grasp on what's important and what's marginalia.

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

The newest books are those that never grow old.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.