Ricky Reed Quotes

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

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

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging them. I'm not slandering them. I'm not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.

Adele ain't soul.

Anyone would be embarrassed of what they did at 15 or 16. I listen back to that first record, and I'm like, 'Compared to what my contemporaries were doing, it was crappy.' You listen to an early Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera song, and they are great pop songs. I just don't feel like on that first record I got anywhere near anything great.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

I love everything Katy Perry does.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

My favorite Taylor Swift song is between 'Blank Space' and 'Wildest Dreams.'

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.