I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.
I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.
When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.'
Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.