Quotes About Popularity

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.

I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'

My track record suggests that I'm not quite a mainstream darling, that's for sure. I don't want to only cater to a small audience, but it's just kind of worked out that way.

If you look at my track record, there was nothing on radio that sounded like 'Oh Carolina,' 'Mr Bombastic' when they came out.

The last Simply Red album, 'Stay,' was good, but the first three tracks were designed for radio play. They were written to meet people's expectations of Simply Red.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

It's okay that you like him," Spam says. "Serial killers are really popular. They get prison married and everything.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

Your good times decide whether you are criticized or forgotten during your bad times.

Rock is a commercially made mass music and this must be the starting point for its celebration as well as for its dismissal.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets...

As John Ashbery once said, "Being a famous poet is the not the same thing as being famous.