Eric Nam Quotes

'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

The Chitranna song from Buddhivanta' has done wonders and turned things around for me. Everyone's humming it, including kids, and that's a huge compliment.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

The great thing about 'Coco' is that for anybody who hears it, it just sticks.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

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.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

I had a gig in Sweden. There were thousands of people there, and when I launched into 'I'm Yours,' they were all singing along. It was as if I was singing the Swedish national anthem. I was stunned.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

A good song is a good song.

If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You Can Go Your Own Way' in your ear all day, and that's what makes a good song.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

The way I picked the tracks for '99.9%' was based on the feeling of, 'Is this going to be a hit?' I wanted songs that people would immediately hear and remember.

It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

When we play live show we tend to find there's a whole portion that's a considerably younger demographic. That's quite gratifying. They primarily seem to be into 'The Hurting' which I guess makes sense.

I realize that I've had Ian Van Dahl: 'Castles in the Sky,' the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then 'Castles in the Sky' will just happen. Maybe that's some sort of indication that it's actually my favorite song of all time.

You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer song.