Billy Porter Quotes

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.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

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

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

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

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

Pop music is what touches me the most.

In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.

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.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

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.

The Bullet Club has sort of become this pop-culture phenomenon. You don't even have to like wrestling or follow our product, and you can wear a Bullet Club shirt, and it's cool.

Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.

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

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

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

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