My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.
It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
