Quotes About Popularity

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

When there's just so many games out there to play, Nintendo games just went to the bottom of that list.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

I had no clue the songs from my films almost three decades ago are still popular.

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Not that I'm bragging or anything, because I was shocked, but I literally got hundreds of emails from people during my time on 'Project Runway' asking me out on dates. I had no idea that people would even care.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

It's dangerous not to tour, because people assume you've faded away, or have no interest.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of people, it had somehow been drained of its worth.

We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it.

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

A book become popular because of its text, but it's the subtext that makes it live forever. For the true obsessive, whatever an author doesn't explicitly explain ends up becoming everything that matters most (and since it's inevitably the obsessives who keep art alive, they make the rules).