Bill Kaulitz Quotes

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!

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

I wanted so much to come to America and have America hear my music.

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.

The American Dream

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

I want to make more fans, sell records.