Robert Glasper Quotes

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

Being a celebrity is a business.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.