I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
I have a relatively good track record.
I've set no world record.
I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.
I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
I know I will never have a hit single in America.
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.