When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases.
I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?
I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.
To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have a good taste in music and should know your good music from mediocre ones.
I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
The casual listener won't be around forever.
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.
My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.
