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Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.