Lauv Quotes

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

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

Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

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!

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

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 don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

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.

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

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

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

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

I was at a Thai restaurant when 'i hate u, i love u' hit the million-listen mark. It was weird because nothing else I released before had gotten that high at all.

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

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.

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.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.

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

In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.