Javed Ali Quotes

I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.

I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

I wouldn't trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs.

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

I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

I've been working at this for a while now, so seeing the success of 'Sweet but Psycho' is kind of mind-blowing, but it's exciting.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood. The love that I received from people was everything, and it still is everything for me.

Of course I think we're most thankful for 'Shake It,' because it's given us a lot of opportunities, helped us pay some bills and brought us pretty far in life. And it's fun to perform live.

I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.

It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else. It's a true honor, and it might sound intense, but it's one of the most rewarding parts of the songwriting experience.

We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren't that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how we tried and failed to get across in our music, we actually succeeded on 'Superstar Car Wash.'

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.

I was telling people like 'My Dawg' gon' be the song that get me out there. I knew it.

I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

I didn't want to be famous, I just wanted to sing.

I am so happy to be able to do what I love. To have the songs I've written for other artists go No. 1 and my songs go to No. 1 has been amazing.