Stormzy Quotes

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

I'm not embarrassed that I'm a fan of Justin Bieber.

I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.

I got into music around the age of eight years old, and I think the reason why was because I discovered the Spice Girls. I fell in love with them, and it was the first time I ever felt like the music was just directed to me.

I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

I love mainstream music.

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.

Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

I really like Nicki Minaj. I think she's great.