Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing for the most part.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.