Quotes About Popularity

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

I was kind of a MySpace kid in high school, and people thought since I had so many MySpace friends that they didn't need to be nice to me in real life. They were like, 'You get enough attention online,' or they were jealous or something. I don't really know.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

I want to write for big names like Whitney Houston and The Backstreet Boys.

Biblical names are hot again.

In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

Jim Crockett could just advertise Ricky Steamboat and Ric Flair, and we would do great numbers just off of the two names being hooked up for the evening. Fans knew we'd go out there and give them a hell of a match, win, lose or draw.

Everybody in Naples must have a picture with me by now, but if you need another one, I never say no to a selfie.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

In my hometown, people I didn't even know started to recognize me: 'Oh, you're that kid that's doing well over there in Europe and with the national team!'

Comedians used Christine jokes with abandon, frequently when I was present, as even my name was good for a surefire laugh. Many of the stories were very unappetizing, and almost always dealt with the more lewd and phonographic aspects of sex. Probably it's because I was the subject of the commentary, but I've never quite understood why it reached such levels of popularity, though I admit that the sources showed phenomenal imagination.

That, I know now, is why social media remains so popular; it is the home of the powerless.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

As a UC Berkeley alumni magazine headline neatly phrased it, 'Philosophy's Popularity Soars: Devotees Find It's More Than "An Interesting Path to Poverty"'.