Pop Quotes

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Pop art is for everyone.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

I'm not interested in pop art.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.