Serj Tankian Quotes

If politicians are good copy, I like them. If not, I don’t care about them.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I do think 'Gogglebox' is extraordinarily insightful, and I think if politicians want to understand how we are viewed at home, it's quite recommended viewing.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post. I think a lot of this is the PR value. Look at what we're doing here. We are talking about how Jeff Bezos cares about the poor. And for some people that's all you need.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.