Pop Quotes

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.