Henry Rollins Quotes

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you're in.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.