Debbi Peterson Quotes

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

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

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

A record deal is my dream.

When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

When I got my deal with Cash Money, it changed my whole life.

A lot of people are trying to get me to go solo. It's just a thing I have to deal with a lot. Record labels are always trying to get me to go solo.

I really didn't think I was going to make records to where I make a living out of it.