Pop Quotes

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.