Quotes About Popularity

We'll go out and we'll be playing in front of 15,000 people and say, 'Hey, we're going to do three new songs from something we just recorded' and 5,000 people get up and go get a hot dog and a beer and they don't come back until they hear the opening strings of 'The Joker' or 'Fly Like an Eagle.'

I always laugh at people who strive to be famous because all you do is get mithered to death by everyone.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

I've been striving for attention my whole life. Now I have it.

Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.

I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.

The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.

I struggled with the limelight.

Everyone has those times when you feel like you don't fit in. Everyone struggles to a certain extent with being cool and popular, but I never really let it affect me. I played sports and did theater, and school was really important to me. I had fun in high school.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

We have a massive following and a loyal following. We've never bought a follower or any of that stuff that brands do, it's all organic.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

Bollywood music is so international now, and our music has become global.

We've been lucky with our music; people have liked it.