Back Quote by Patty Smyth

I feel like the first album contained a lot of personal songs, like 'The Foundation' or 'Carry the Weight.'

— Xzibit

I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn…

— Ester Dean

I have so many records put away now, it was just a matter of picking 13 songs and selling it. It was all these…

— Akon

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

— J. J. Cale

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have…

— Eric Carmen

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

— Demi Lovato

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even…

— Eric Clapton

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

— Navya Nair

I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.

— Mike Will Made It

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

— Jane Siberry

A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put…

— Kali Uchis

I knew for a fact I needed to get some money. I felt like I was good to go with the music. People around…

— Tee Grizzley