Mike McCready Quotes

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

Do I want everyone in Australia to know who I am? Absolutely. But the only way I can do that is by winning fights.

Being on the Hot 100 is absolutely amazing.