Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

I've watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that I've written hits for come and go. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

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.'

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.