Brandon Flowers Quotes

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

We didn't expect 'Boom Boom Pow' to come out the box and be so successful.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

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

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

I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

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

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

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 Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

The first song that I had that went platinum was 'Keep Your Head Up,' which was a long time ago. Then, you get 'one-hit wonder' with that.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.