In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit ...
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
Tom: It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything.
Dean Vernon Wormer: [after seeing Bluto pop out of a car in a pirate costume] Dean Vernon Wormer: Oh my God.
It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!
Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.
I’m expanding my band. I’m adding audience members.
With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human.
The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.
Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
