Kim Deal Quotes

What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.

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.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

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 had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

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.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

I really want my music to go mainstream.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

Every song a hit, every hit a smack!

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

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

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.

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

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

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.