Quotes About Popularity

Since we were getting a lot of love from fans, that means we have to try to meet their expectations. This was mentally giving the members a very hard time.

People always want to talk about Cristiano. He always works a lot. For many people he is the best in the world, but many try to take away that merit.

The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.

I don't want to disappoint people. Especially with an icon like Britney. You don't want to be the one who messed it up.

I don't know many footballers except Maradona and Messi.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

I hope my fans will grow with me. I want to be like Michael Jackson: 5-year-olds love his music, and 75-year-olds love his music.

What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.

If everyone's rocking the same cool, hard-to-find fabrics, they might not be as cool and hard to find as you think.

'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

When I was on 'Head of the Class,' 25 million, 30 million people would watch that every night - now a big hit doesn't get a third of that audience.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.