Mike McCready Quotes

We've played on 'Saturday Night Live' and got not even a Rolling Stone review.

Now, to be a mainstream act, you have to be firing on all cylinders on so many different platforms. You've got to have a social media voice. You've got to do promo on TV. You've got to tour everywhere.

I feel media is important when you are showcasing your work, as people need to know what you are doing.

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

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.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

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.

Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.