Eva Simons Quotes

When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that song did really well and I got some recognition.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good.

I want to make a good impact on the K-pop music world.

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

I think when you have one song that does really well, people love you from that song, or they hate you from that song.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

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.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Put out great music, and that's that.