When unknowns do mad things in public...

"When unknowns do mad things in public, it's embarrassing. They are not glamorous or special or rich, and therefore mental behaviour from them is unseemly. But when celebrities do mad things in public, it's either charming, or scandalous, or hilarious, or terribly dangerous and exciting. Or an expression of their tortured genius. Or an involuntary creative eruption. Or a courageous attempt to subvert convention. Whatever. It's always a glamorous thing." !

Polly Vernon, 'Celebrity Etiquette - Stretch the envelope of sanity and you'll be loved truly, madly, deeply'

The Observer Magazine, 6th Nov 2005