Lana Del Rey Quotes

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

How does a band like System of a Down get big?

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.

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.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

I want to be on the Billboard Hot 100 with a single that has Korean lyrics.

We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

'Let There Be Love' is going to be my very first international single release after going independent and I'm beyond excited.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

My songs were already a hit track with over 100 million views/comments and multi-hundred thousand downloads on online websites before coming to Bollywood.

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.