Caroline Polachek Quotes

In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

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.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

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!

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

How does a band like System of a Down get big?

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

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.

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

I enjoy putting out singles.

If you want to release your own single, there cannot be a better launch than going to Los Angeles and collaborating with a renowned artist.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.