I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.