I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
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Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.
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