Jon Fishman Quotes

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

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.

Being a celebrity is a business.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

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

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Celebrity is very weird.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?