Quotes About Popularity

The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.

My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

Look, there is always something of a fine balancing act to what we do, but ultimately I believe what matters most of the time to me is what matters to my constituents. That doesn't mean I haven't gotten into trouble at times for taking a stand I believed was right, but may not have been the popular choice.

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed.

I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.

There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.

I can't bear the idea or concept of being a 'celeb.'

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Being famous is part of my job.

Being famous is fun.