Quotes About Popularity

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

I'm geek royalty now.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Nowadays, television has taken over big time and I'm really enjoying my stints there.

As a model, only a limited number of people knew about me.

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.