Chamillionaire Quotes

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.

I'm not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.

Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually tried to support has been No. 1.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

I've had a few ditty hits.

All these years later there's still something magical when we play. Who would've thought when we started out that 40 years later we'd still be together and people would still be interested.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"

In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hit and what wasn't. So I thought if I just write what I like, why shouldn't people like what I like?

I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're the ones buying the tickets and coming to the shows. They're the professionals in this business, and they're the only ones who can tell you which songs have the ability to move them.

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.