Quotes About Popularity

As far as my goals are concerned, Eli Drake needs to be a household name any and everywhere it can be. Aside from that I want to rack up championships.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

I don't get played on radio anymore. Once you're over 40, forget it.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

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

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'

The entire country is rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is no alternative to Modiji.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'

I actually ran into Justin Bieber when nobody knew him at the Kids' Choice Awards. He came up to me like, 'Mr. Crews, how you doing? I'm produced by Usher and I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Justin Bieber,' and I just knew he was a good, nice kid. Next year, people are screaming and attacking him!

We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana.

I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.