Domino Kirke Quotes

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.

We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's never a goal.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!

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.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.

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

Pop music is what touches me the most.

Being promoted as a bubble-gum type artist that has one hit and it's all over is not something I want to do. I want a long career. I want to continue to play guitar and have as much guitar in there as possible in a commercial song without being too indulgent.

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.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!

I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.