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What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.