Dave Davies Quotes

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

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!

I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

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.

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

I like 'Bootylicious,' 'Survivor' - my little granddaughter loves 'Survivor.'

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

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

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.

I love Usher's 'Confessions.'

I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.'

'Last Friday Night'... I just heard a song, and I just liked Katy Perry ever since.

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

I want to be on the Billboard Hot 100 with a single that has Korean lyrics.

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?'

I like '1989,' the whole album. 'Welcome to New York,' 'Blank Space,' 'Bad Blood' - all of it!

'Fields of Gold' is my favourite record.

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.