Andrew Ridgeley Quotes

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

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

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

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

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

It is funny what a year can do.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.