Kurt Vile Quotes

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

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.

I wouldn't trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs.

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

You can tell when you're in a hit.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

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.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

My hits are not hits.

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.

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.

Being on the Hot 100 is absolutely amazing.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

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

A lot of people do records, and they get hit records, but we were blessed with a lot of monsters. 'Oh Carolina' was a very monstrous record in 1993; so was 'Boombastic,' 'Angel' and 'It Wasn't Me.'

BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'

All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite' with Travis Scott.

I don't know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like 'Sabotage' - would you put that song on, like, 'I'm gonna listen to that right now?' It's a weird choice.