It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a pretty good singer, I guess.'
In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
It's very funny that I'm being appreciated for my dance moves because when I was young, I was made fun of, as nobody thought I was able to dance.
When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists.
Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.
If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.
I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
I was drafted way later than I should have been, and all that shows me is people don't see my true value.
Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
