Unconcerned with Popularity Quotes

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

I don't care whether I'm in the spotlight, not in the spotlight. That's not gonna stop me from doing anything.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being a writer. So, I don't even think about other people. I'm just interested writing about human beings so if somebody calls and says, 'We'd like you to do it,' I'd say, 'That sounds like a cool idea.'

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Trends don't interest me.

I always felt independent of musical fashion.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

To be honest, I'm really not interested on how I'm viewed as. The only thing I'm interested in is to keep creating something special. Whether that something is synonymous to me or not is really none of my concern.

Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.

I don't really think about or pay any mind to what everyone thinks about my fighting style or if they watch me fight; I just concentrate on myself.

I don't really keep up with trends; I just wear what I want. I don't really let anyone's opinion get to me. I stay in my own head.

I haven't always been fashionable, but I've always not really cared so much about how I dress.

I'm not a guy who really gets caught up in outside noise or opinions, or anything like that.