Jonas Blue Quotes

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

I had written or cowritten eight of the ten songs on 'Beauty and the Beat,' and I had written our biggest hit, 'We Got the Beat.' How was I going to top all of that?

You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.