Quotes About Inspiration

I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.

Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we've lost it a little bit.

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

I listened to a lot of female pop music growing up. I started to realize that there were women out there wanting to stay something, playing instruments and writing their own songs.

I love singing gospel. It's fulfilling but in a different way than singing pop music.

Even though country is a large percentage of what I do. I don't want to get locked into just one area because I write a lot of different kinds of music and I like doing three-part harmony, minor chords and pop music.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.