Arthur Godfrey Quotes

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

The end game is always a hit song.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

I really want my music to go mainstream.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

My next baby will be my new record.

I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!