Quotes About Pop

I'm an instant star, just add water.

I tell you what completely took the biscuit for me – the song 'Tonight' with Tina Turner. Now she was really good, but I just thought, This record is so poppy.

Your annuity can be guaranteed (it pays out for an agreed number of years even if you pop your clogs) or not guaranteed (if you go to a better place, the annuity provider keeps all your money).

Interrogate them," said Ferris. "Send them to Gitmo. Send them to Hani. Whatever." "Well, sure, interrogation," said Hoffman. "That helps. But that's not the real pop. Even if the guy we capture doesn't say shit, the bad guys have to assume he has blabbed. So they'll have to change their cell-phone numbers, and their Internet

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so.

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

The trouble with bubbles is, they burst.

To some people, The Beatles are just Paul McCartney's band before Wings.

I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.

I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.

Because I grew up listening to and watching loads of pop/pop rock videos, I'm very influenced by the 1990s.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'