I’m mainstream.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

We’re news junkies in my house.

I could have been a cult writer if I’d kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

The world is too violent right now.

We live in ugly times.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

I don’t follow politics much.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers‘ songs and so forth.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Everything popular is wrong.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I live in a crazy time.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!