Quotes About Creativity

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

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.

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

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

I had no problem with Ritchie. Ritchie and I never argued. We never had a problem. I think I was always able to write the things that he wanted - until he decided he wanted to be a pop star. And then he started doing pop music. And once he did that, that was the end for me.

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've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

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 really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

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

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 not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.

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 feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

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'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

That's what I want to put out into the world - just stuff I love, tributes to my favorite pop stars.

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.

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.