I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music.
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.
I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
