Kim Deal Quotes

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

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.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

We did reach a wider audience with 'SNL,' but it's hard to know what attracts people to your band in the long run.

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

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

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.

Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it's an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that's a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I'll make my way up to that.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

I think a lot of bands have hit songs that don't get the attention that they ever are going to deserve.

When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their readers and contemporary artists are never going to check me out because they're not reading about me.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

My songs were already a hit track with over 100 million views/comments and multi-hundred thousand downloads on online websites before coming to Bollywood.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.