Quotes About Achievement

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

My goal was never to sell many records.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

I got a PhD from Harvard and a few years later, there was a girl from Sunderland who hadn't got into Oxford or Cambridge, even though she'd got perfect A-levels. Harvard asked me to come and recruit her because I was recruited out of university by Harvard - they were trying to show that people could make it.

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.