Sean Paul Quotes

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

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

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

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

My first album didn't come out until I was 26.

I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

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

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

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.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

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.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.