Quotes About Inspiration

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

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.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

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.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

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

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

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.

Pop music I have always loved best.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.