Tyrus Quotes

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself.