Tablo Quotes

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

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

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

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

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

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.

I remember when I was a kid, if you had your name on a piece of vinyl, man, you were, like, in the halls of Valhalla; all of sudden, you were hanging out with Odin and being at the table of the gods. You were the real deal; you weren't some guy struggling in a garage somewhere.

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

I've never had the passion of wanting to be the next Monica or Beyonce or anything like that.

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good.

I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.

Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'