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Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

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.

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I want to use my celebrity for good.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.