St. Vincent Quotes

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.

It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.

We want young people to get every opportunity to experience culture, to understand it and to think it is for them.

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

I think the audiences abroad are older and come from a more mature society. They have a different understanding of whats happening as art.

I just don't like reality TV.

Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows - they're not about me.