Quotes About Influence

That's one thing brands are understanding is, I'm the blogger who's not writing about fashion. I'm not writing about beauty. I'm not writing about gossip. I'm not writing about politics. I'm writing about all of that. I'm the person they can come to if they just want to reach people who care and have their fingers on pop culture.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

The thing that got us going early was the running boom. And then, I think, we rode the Jordan bit, which then kind of crossed us over into the pop culture.

Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.

I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented pretty much our notions of the circus.

There's songs like 'Africa' that just have kind of become part of pop culture.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.