Quotes About Achievement

Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.

I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it's just insane.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

When Eric Clapton cut 'After Midnight,' he sold so many records and it was so big at the time, I decided that I would pursue the songwriting thing. I was 34 years old at that time. I'd been down the pike and back before I had any success at all.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I sold 2 million records on Loud, which was one-tenth of the size of Sony.

I had a great, long run with Sony Records, and had great relationships and lots of success.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.