Adam Duritz
Related I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible... DAN HILL If an artist has five or six or seven albums in his or her catalog, a lot of times many retailers ar... JEFF JONES Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record. AMANDA PALMER REBA MCENTIRE First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't wri... BARRY MANILOW TINA TURNER My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa... KENNY CHESNEY [The new album is a compilation of his favorite covers and old hits, songs that have been] re-worked... BRUCE HORNSBY GARY WRIGHT And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia wh... DAVID KNAPP JEAN-MICHEL JARRE CARLY SIMON Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ... KARA DIOGUARDI We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years. DAISY BERKOWITZ People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits. EDDIE FLOYD You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have ... AZIZ ANSARI I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha... THE EDGE We got some hits, but we didn't get timely hits. We had nine hits. We should have scored 15 runs. AL MCCULLOCK AURORA I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,'... DICKEY BETTS GARY CHERONE ANDY TAYLOR I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&... ERIC AVERY I tend to name albums after one of the songs. DAN AUERBACH JOHNNY VAN ZANT Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mas... HARVEY MASON, JR. VAN MORRISON FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE MAURY YESTON I love that record, it's a classic. It's one of those songs that if you hear it when you're having a... BILL BARR Her last tour was kind of a greatest hits tour, and I don't think she would want to repeat all the s... LIZ ROSENBERG CHAD KROEGER We got some walks and some hits with runners in scoring position, ... Those are the little things yo... RICH AURILIA On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci... STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ GARY ALLAN AURORA He's always flying around, making some nice hits, and the other kids have responded to that. DAVE EVERSON LUPE FIASCO CRAIG GROESCHEL I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They h... PATTI LABELLE Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childho... DANIEL BREAKER Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu... HAROLD RAMIS TAYLOR SWIFT I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' a... BRANDON FLOWERS You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any... WAYNE KRAMER GARTH BROOKS We should have done better than winning one out of three games here. We didn't get some hits when we... ADAM LAROCHE Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for t... LESLEY GORE It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think w... BEN GIBBARD GRAHAM NASH It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of yo... JOSH DUN I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't. BONNIE TYLER My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to see... BIRDY MICK JAGGER JONI MITCHELL I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. The... BIG SEAN You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t... JAKE OWEN I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio... ALEXA RAY JOEL I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made effort... GERRY BECKLEY He hits some drives you have to see to believe. BRIAN CRAIG DAVE GROHL I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, hav... CHARLES KELLEY Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you don't... JASON ABERCROMBIE Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co... JAKE OWEN ANN COULTER Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST We have seen so much good happen around us that we felt it was time to celebrate by choosing old, fa... ALBERT MAZIBUKO TOM PETTY We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are... JASON ALDEAN TOM WAITS CARLOS SANTANA JON: We wrote the songs for the greatest hits album in Richie's bathroom. RICHIE: It's a big bathroo... JON & RICHIE (BON JOVI) R. KELLY TAYLOR KITSCH HARRY CONNICK, JR. FRANK ZAPPA DAVID BOWIE MIKE LOVE TAMMY FAYE BAKKER We did get some timely hits. We hadn't been getting those when we needed them. We're still missing s... JOE LEE WADE BOGGS ANTHONY KIEDIS Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ... JIM VARNEY Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question an... JANELLE MONAE It's nice to have the bats come around. We had a bunch of hits, balls hit hard. Maybe we can get som... KEN MACHA Those are some pretty big hits. JOE ALBERICI I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so... DIANE WARREN When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a goo... JUICY J MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS LUKE BRYAN CATIE CURTIS You can expect fast, barreling punk songs. We have alt-country songs. We have a song that combines j... DREW BENTON TOM PETTY LEONARD COHEN Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly lai... DOUG ROBB
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That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... 
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that ne... 
It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through tha... 
My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singe... 
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits. 
We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. 
Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and... 
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit... 
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? 
For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To... 
Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at l... 
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ... 
It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not r... 
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and... 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums. 
How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums? 
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind. 
I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band. 
I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. 
There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we ... 
My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and... 
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... 
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and ... 
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. 
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... 
People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during ... 
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... 
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love... 
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. 
We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '6... 
When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up i... 
It doesn't matter if you get 3,000 hits in 18 years or you get 3,000 hits in 22 years. You still hav... 
We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u... 
I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... 
There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I&... 
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultura... 
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y... 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result... 
All my songs are where I am. 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
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Bad things happen sometimes. 
Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocke... 
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.