Media Fatigue Quotes

If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.

Just once, I'd like a commercial.

I'm completely done with reality TV.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.