Clairo Quotes

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Kraftwerk isn't a band. It's a concept. We call it 'Die Menschmaschine,' which means 'the human machine.'

For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I love futurist music.

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.