Mick Ralphs Quotes

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

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.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

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

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

The 'Chainsmokers' found me early on, before anyone knew about 'Hide Away,' and reached out. I heard the demo for 'Don't Let Me Down' and loved it.

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

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

I think I'll be doing music until I die, regardless of whether I'm popular or not. If I ever feel like people aren't receiving my music well anymore, I'll probably go to the backroads and become an executive or just sign artists.

The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

The end game is always a hit song.

The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.