Carlos Pena Jr. Quotes

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!

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

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.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

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 only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

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

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.