#Public Image Quotes

“He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.”

“I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.”

“My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.”

“I don't want people to think of me as sexy.”

“I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.”

“And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!”

“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.”

“While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.”

“I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.”

“They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.”

“You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.”

“If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.”

“People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.”

“I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.”

“The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.”

“You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.”

“I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.”

“It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.”

“Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.”

“I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.”

“You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.”

“Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.”

“The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.”

“At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.”

“My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”

“I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.”

“I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.”

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...”

“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

“The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.”

“I don't want to be a spokesperson.”

“I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche...”

“Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.”

“I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.”

“I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.”

“Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you”

“A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!”

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”

“I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”

“I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.”

“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”

“I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.”

“I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.”

“I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.”

“I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

“I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character.”

“I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.”

“For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.”