Quotes About Popularity

There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come out to. But I've never been really big in my hometown. My shows would have 10 or 15 people at them.

Walking into my hometown where I grew up with crowds of people waiting for me to get pictures, it just didn't seem real.

And bookish people who do their homework and get it in on time and it's good - they don't have friends at school. I never really got in the cliques. I didn't have the right shoes or hair.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

I like Honey Singh. I love the music that he does.

I think Honey G is a brand, she's an inspiration for me at least.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction.

I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.

It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

There was nothing wrong with having teen-age fans, but we were hoping to appeal to a much broader audience than the 13-to 17-year-olds.

I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

'Bigg Boss' is the biggest show in the world, and I'm sure anyone would want to host it, but not me.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.