Brad Delson Quotes

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

When I got my deal with Cash Money, it changed my whole life.

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'

When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.

I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked out.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work.

I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

Since I was 19, I've said, 'I'm gonna sign for a million.'

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.

I had this dream that you get this record deal, and you're a star, and everybody loves you - but I was a youngster, and it didn't work out that way.

We struggled for years before we got that record deal. It was tough because we were girls. People were slamming doors in our faces for years.

A record deal is my dream.

I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.