Carson Daly Quotes

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

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

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

I'm not embarrassed that I'm a fan of Justin Bieber.

It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.

I love mainstream music.

I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

Everybody's all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it's, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.

After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, 'What is next?'

We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.