Quotes About Relevance

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.

It makes you feel good when you do a song that, sonically, can fit right next to Drake. But our audience, they don't care. And it hurts that they don't care!

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

I could care less about identifying who the MVP is in a championship game.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.

People will love or hate 'Satta' and 'Stumped.' But they cannot ignore them.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

I hope I have important things to say.

Authenticity matters; and, most importantly, the truth matters.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

In the beginning, in 1975, just how big a star Kamal Haasan was, today's generation does not know.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.