Chad Gilbert Quotes

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

I like 'Bootylicious,' 'Survivor' - my little granddaughter loves 'Survivor.'

The word 'album' makes you nervous, especially 'debut album.'

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

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.'

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

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.

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their artist, or a Puffy move.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!