Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it...
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
I am totally unapologetic about pop music.
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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.
