Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.

I didn't listen to Girls Aloud growing up - no way. Too cheesy, man!

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.

I like Scissor Sisters.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

My heart is always listening to the music I grew up with from the '70s and '80s to early '90s.

I love '80s and '90s music.

I know the words to almost every '80s song.

I love Eighties rock.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

Deep down inside, I'm a cheeseball and still listen to Bryan Adams and all that stuff.

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.

I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing.

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.