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I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

— John Legend

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

— Gary Numan

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

— Faith Hill

I think that, whatever happens, I'm just happy I've written those songs and I've made an album. That's really big for me, and I'm proud of that.

— Aurora

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

— Rain Phoenix

I take a lot of pride in my songs.

— Mike Posner

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

— Chad Kroeger

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

— Amy Winehouse

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

— Taylor Swift

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

— Scott Stapp

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

— Trisha Yearwood