Ty Dolla Sign Quotes

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own.

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

I was an overnight sensation.

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.

My iPhone was blowing up with notifications that I had became a superstar overnight. It changed my life and I was hiding after that to avoid unnecessary talk.

People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

It has been wild, you know? I started out just putting a song that I made out on the Internet without being sure if anyone was going to like it, and it took me on tour around the world with Justin Bieber. It's been amazing!

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.