I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.
When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.
When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.
It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
