Quotes About Diversity

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

There hasn't been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

I want an audience that we might call a pop audience. Cross over to pop. Cross over to R&B. And bring those people to Brubeck and Chick Corea, you dig? A lot of people found Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea because they came to hear 'We're in This Love Together' and 'After All.'

I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

Nothing wrong with pop!

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

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.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

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

Pop music has progressed.