Quotes About Popularity

On TV, only a handful of people can move the meter so to speak - only a handful of personalities can move ratings. LeBron seems to single-handedly affect those ratings.

I'm often being singled out because of who my significant other is. That's nice when his approval rating is 70 percent, not so nice when it's not.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

For me, I'm more a fan of the songs than of the artists because often, it's not worth getting the whole album. There's usually a few singles and the rest of it is politics or something.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

I got recognition because of film music, but people start recognizing me as an artiste more because of singles.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

If you oversaturate the market with singles, then people will get sick of you.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

I think some people have this thing where just because you do singles that means you're not a real artist. It's like hold on a minute - I'm selling millions of records here and been streamed billions of times... How can I not be taken as a real artist just because these songs are singles?

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they don't want that. They're like, 'OK, I heard that. Next!'

People know my song but they don't know the guy who sings the song.

It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.

When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.

I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.