Nita Strauss Quotes

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

I think every one of our songs could be a Top 10 record.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

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

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

I'm not concerned at all to have a number one song or a top 10 or top 50 or top whatever.

When 'Flaws' went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we'd ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.

'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.

To have a No. 1 with 130,000 copies sold is, you know, I remember when we first started selling records, in order to have a No. 1, you'd have to sell at least a half a million if not more, for the rock side of things.

Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.

Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.