Jay Sean Quotes

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.

The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.

Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

If I'm honest, I never knew 'Fast Car' was going to be my first single.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.

When 'Main Rahoon' released, it became a hit with the youth.

I was travelling a lot, during the release of 'Dilbar,' to various countries, and the song would be played at random places like lounges, coffee shops, streets, and I realised the song had reached levels that was beyond India.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

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 don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

It was an honor to have our album and names mentioned on the Billboard charts.