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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.
I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.
I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.