Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.

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

In 2012, I dropped a song called 'Like To Party,' and that just took me all over the world.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

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.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

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

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

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.

There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.