James Corden Quotes

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

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

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

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

I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.