Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.
To the Tennis Court and there saw the King play at Tennis, and others; but to see how the King’s play was extolled without any cause at all was a loathsome sight, though sometimes indeed he did play very well and deserved to be commended; but such open flattery is beastly.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.
Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.
