Pepa Quotes

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I really want my music to go mainstream.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.