Keith Sweat Quotes

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

The U-Tube Moment: The cameras are always on.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.