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.
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
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.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
