Quotes About Popularity

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you.

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.

Ultimately, Bollywood producers only think of one thing: Who is saleable.

I joined Elton John's band in '75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me do the orchestrations. Then I left the band and started producing records. I was not really a popular kind of hit music guy. I was attracted to more esoteric things.

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

I think the best kind of virality is a product that people like so much that they just want to tell people about it.

Great products sell themselves.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

My profession has never demanded that I be mobbed by fans.

It went from 'I was a nobody on the street, just another person.' It turned into something completely different. People were coming up to me, they knew who I was us, requesting pictures.

People say, 'Well, you've been sent to different places.' To be sent to different places it means you're wanted in different places at the same time.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

I think the fundamental issue with comedians is everyone wants to be a famous comedian. That's a really difficult thing to achieve in comedy.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a hit among youth.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.