Matt Skiba Quotes

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

I was an MTV guy back in the day.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

MTV is where it all started for me.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

I'm a '90s kid, so I loved 'NSync and the Spice Girls.

I grew up watching 'TRL.' I had older sisters who got me into it!

A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.

I'm obsessed with artists like Lady Gaga. I'm obsessed with artists like Lana Del Rey.

I'm a '90s baby.

MTV ruined music for us.

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

I grew up loving artists like the Spice Girls and Britney Spears - artists who seemed to live this fantasy lifestyle, and I remember always wanting to join these fantasy people in that world.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.