Quotes About Artistry

There are so many amazing out, gay, black artists who are really great in their own fields, but they aren't necessarily trying to make pop music. I guess my thing is different because I am trying to be part of that world. But doing it my way.

In the early 90s, I did not want to get stuck in pop music.

I wanted to do pop music, and I wanted to dance. I wanted all this because that was me. This is my inner performer, that is what it wants, this is what my heart wants.

I love to sing country music and pop music.

I'm obviously a poptimist. I especially like pop music that isn't formulaic and has depth to it.

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.

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.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

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

Every single song on 'Torches' was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn't any fat on the songs; there wasn't a lot to cut.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

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 don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

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

I didn't look up to only pop stars, but I did look up to Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grimes, Robyn, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, M.I.A., Coldplay, Keane, and more.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.