Todd Haynes Quotes

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

There are a lot of people who are considered 'camp' who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

I don't think I've changed anything in the country format whatsoever. But I'm not worried about it. I've found my place in it.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.

Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, all of these artists that we do love - you see so much of what we do, the personas, makeup, hair, fashion - like, all of is now incorporated in pop culture, and a lot of it has to do with drag, because we over-exaggerate everything, right? We take it out to the next level.

I want to showcase my talent, I'm not just a grime MC, I'm an artist.

Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that a huge pop tune hits you in the face.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.