Quotes About Pop

I'm used to presenting programs about pop music, interviewing pop stars, and hosting awards.

You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.

Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Maybe it's the feminine side of me, but I like that AM radio pop.

I listened to all kinds of music: rock, pop, R & B. But country was always my first love.

I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

'Walk on the Wild Side' was a very catchy song.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.