It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well.
Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.
I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.
Note the startling regularity through history with which society martyrs the rebel in one generation and worships him in the next.
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.
Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
Leonard Cohen kept his Jew name. He's so cool. It's too bad he died.
Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated.… This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor.
Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.
There are very few African Americans who have had as much impact on American society as Bill Cosby.
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'
The idol is the expression of religion.
You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.
