Mat Kearney Quotes

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

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.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

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

I want every song on it to be a hit.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.