Thom Yorke Quotes

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

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

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

I love to listen to pop all the time! I like to be updated on the new hits; I think it's important for what we do. Among my favorites of all time is, of course, Madonna. But I also love Kylie, our little princess; Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Justin Bieber. And I listen to Italian pop music like Tiziano Ferro.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.