I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
I'm not a jazz singer.
I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. 'Hey, what's up? I got $200 and dreams. Let's...
The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start ...
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.
Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.
I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.