Quotes About Achievement

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

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

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

A record deal is my dream.

That first record, I wrote before I had a record deal.

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

When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

I did my first album with my own record label.

I used to be brave. In the past, I've opened a restaurant, had a record label, had my daughter and it was go, go, go with all of these.

I think the first big chance I ever got was I was one of the opening acts for UTFO and 'Roxanne Roxanne,' that whole thing. And I come on stage, it's like 5000 people in the Oakland convention center, I'd never had a record in my life, I'd never had anything in a record store.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

How many people get to say they recorded a song with Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston?

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a half late, but, nevertheless, that's what I did. When I broke 30, I said, 'I think I should be recording until I'm about 50.'