Kim Shattuck Quotes

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.

I've never been overexposed or in people's faces, although there are some who argue that in the late '70s and early '80s, I was played a lot!

So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.

I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn't have them. It's better to have a hit. You can ask anyone - U2, Green Day - and they'll tell you the same thing.

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

I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

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.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

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

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.