Tom Stoppard Quotes

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

I love old school rock and roll.

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.

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.

I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.

It was a lot of fun in the back of that bus with Ritchie Valens, Buddy and The Big Bopper sharing each other's songs.

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

Who doesn't love classic Destiny's Child or Ace of Base? There's so much amazing music from that time period, so it makes sense that we're starting to hear that pop up in records.

I do love great pop music, The Hollies had brilliant pop records.

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music.

I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.

I do occasionally listen to One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer.