"I love being able to laugh at myself. The moment you start to take yourself too seriously, other people don't." —Brody Jenner doesn't realize that you've never taken him seriously [NYDN]

"I just recently admitted that I like Bob Seger. I have some friends from Oakland, California who have been telling me, 'Oh, you have to check out early Bob Seger, it's really awesome.' I didn't believe them for a while, but it's true." —The Sword's J.D. Cronise has obviously never spent much time in Detroit [A.V. Club]

"I suck at traditional dating." —Bret Michaels confirms that he sucks at all forms of dating [NYDN]

"One of the most depressing things over the last month is watching myself pop up on all these year-end lists." —Amanda Palmer [Sound of the City/Voice]

"The 'two' in the equation means C squared, not MC multiplied by two." —mathematician Dr. David Leslie, of Sense About Science, takes issue with Mariah Carey's statement that her album E=MC2 stands for "emancipation equals Mariah Carey times two" [Guardian]