Believe Quote by John Rzeznik

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

— Kevin Jonas

I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one…

— Wayne Static

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

— Carly Pearce

I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They made sure…

— Philip Bailey

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

— Lauryn Hill

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don't know how many times. It was…

— Charlotte Caffey

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

— John Rzeznik

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never…

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company…

— Tony Kanal

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

Yeah, I mean, I'm a beast in the studio. My first record, I finished recording in like two days. The second was three days.

— Adore Delano

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

— Shane McAnally