It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
“I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.”
“And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.”