Pop Culture Icons Quotes

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Back in the Sinatra era, you called women "broads," and the broads didn't mind. If Sinatra called you a broad, you were flattered. When Sinatra walked in, and you know what you did? You ran up and you tried to kiss him. Who hasn't seen women throwing their underwear at the Beatles and this kind of thing?

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.

I'm very inspired by a lot of things from the past, from Cher to Diana Ross.

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.