Quotes About Popularity

Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

From 1969 to 1973, I was never played on radio stations.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

FM stations still play songs from 'Birugaali,' 'Patre Loves Padma,' 'Sanchari' and 'Dheemaku' and people love them. But since the films failed, hardly anybody remembers that I scored the music for these films.

I've become good at judging whether a girl wants to be around you just because she's after your status or because you're popular.

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

I was never after celebrity status.

Good or bad, if people still talk about you it means that you have managed to stay relevant.

It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in you. So you have to work even harder to generate interest.

The hard part of being a celebrity is staying one!

If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real.

It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.

Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad habit but PS2 still has more staying power.