“The mainstream is not the mainstream anymore. We're a lot more niched ...” — Sam Seder Quote

“The mainstream is not the mainstream anymore. We're a lot more niched in our media.”

“I feel like I don't mind acting in a sitcom because it pays well and is good exposure, but I don't feel like, comedically, what I have to say I can say on a show that needs to draw 14 million each week.”

“You cannot avoid controversy in this day and age - you really only can pick sides.”

“I was this classic film school snob who thought mainstream cinema was synonymous with bad cinema.”

“There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression.”

“I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.”