I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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.
It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
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.'