Curt Smith Quotes

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.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

I want to be on the Billboard Hot 100 with a single that has Korean lyrics.

When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.

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 used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

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

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

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

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.