No band has two hours' worth of greatest hits, but Queen comes close.
If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite' with Travis Scott.
I think we've got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, 'God, I've forgotten you've had so many hits!'
Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
I know when 'California Dreamin' was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.
We always make music and continue to make hits.
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.
We are so blessed that we've had so many great songs that fans have turned into big hits for us.
I love big hits.
Musicians should understand that it is not just about creating one hit but to sustain it at the top.
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
For me and MTV, it was always the MTV year-end countdowns. It was what I'd look forward to honestly every year just as much as Christmas. When Christmas was over, the top 100 videos of the year would lead up to the ball drop.
