Pop Quotes

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

There should be a place and the space for all pop.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Pop music I have always loved best.