Kenneth Edmonds Quotes

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

The best pop songs are the ones that show that person's personality. It's harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it's worth waiting for it.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches on.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.