Quotes About Popularity

When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their readers and contemporary artists are never going to check me out because they're not reading about me.

Paul was a huge movie star, and I think really what I didn't realize about Paul that I've since learned, is how loved Paul was to this scale.

It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.

One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.

When I'm on, people watch; people pay attention.

You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.

I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

My thing is to get new fans. So I love when people say, 'Oh, I've heard of him before.' Or 'I've never heard of Durk.' Or 'I'm a fan of Durk today.' This is what I like to see, because it lets me know when I come out with something that it's going to work.

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.

Here in America, the big-brand collaborations kind of signify how far you've gotten. So in that sense, it's a giant kudos to us that we, within the first year, get to be the first ones to be the launchers of this Pepsi Sound Drop.