Quotes About Pop

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

Till Death Do Us Party,' I think we put out a great pop album that we recorded in like three days, and it was so much fun to tour.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

I've always wanted to be a pop star of sorts because I love the whole touring gig.

I landed gigs touring with The Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears!

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.

I feel like Britney kind of has her own genre: If you look at songs like 'Toxic' and 'Piece of Me' and 'Oops! I Did It Again,' they all were sort of influential and led the way.

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

I don't really follow genres. I have a bunch of really poppy tracks and then another super-low-fi, tape-recorded sound. It's actually really random.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

For fans, whose musical values don't matter so much, or, rather, matter in different ways, with different consequences, trading pop judgments is a way to "flirt and fight.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

I tend to gravitate towards neutrals in my home but also love finding interesting fabrics or pieces that add a pop of color.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.