Dan Hill Quotes

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.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

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

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

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.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.

I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.