Quotes About Relevance

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'

It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

There are too many awards shows.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

los títulos y honores carecían de importancia.

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Nobody gives a tinker's fuck about fiction any more, not real fiction, and the only kind of … values anybody seems to care about are the ones that can be added up on a balance sheet.

Does the world really need more amateur photographs of giraffes?

I've always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant aspect of its public profile. I always loved stuff like Orwell's 1984, where he explicitly said "It's 1948, reversed." I liked writers that were doing allegorical, satirical, fantastical versions of everyday life.

Here's the strangeness of having a Tourette's brain, then: no control in my personal experiment of self. What might be only strangeness must always be auditioned for relegation to the domain of symptom, just as symptoms always push into other domains, demanding the chance to audition for their moment of acuity or relevance, their brief shot—coulda been a contender!—at centrality. Personalityness. There's a lot of traffic in my head, and it's two-way.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference.

I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.