Bonnie Tyler Quotes

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

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

If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.

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

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

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.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

I'm not a pop star.

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

Our first album sold a million copies. Because we had such a big hit on the first album, it's always like, 'You can't top the first album.'

I'm not concerned at all to have a number one song or a top 10 or top 50 or top whatever.

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

I think every one of our songs could be a Top 10 record.

I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.