I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
