In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
