Charlotte Caffey Quotes

Usually, when you're putting out a record, you have reviews from people a week before, and you have a vibe 'cause everyone's heard it - you've heard feedback from everyone, and they've listened to your single for a couple of months. Radio's playing it.

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

We'd been out touring for a couple of years before we signed with Sony and everything.

I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

You used to have to come to America for 18 months and drive around in a van, trying to get radio stations to play your song. But I remember One Direction's manager telling me that the first time they came to America, they hadn't released a song - they'd only been on 'The X Factor.' But there were 2,000 fans waiting at LAX airport.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

If you're 25, I could see how you could be tricked into thinking 'Benji' is my most successful record, but I've been doing this long before online magazines existed.

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

Our crowds seem to keep growing whether we put out a record or not, so I feel very lucky to have that support.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.