I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
Metal fans have a connection. There is something there; just like the wrestling world, they are die hard about wrestling, and it's that passion that makes you enjoy what you do. That is why I go to metal shows; you watch these dudes on stage just shredding and letting loose. You can't help but love it.
It's not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It's not as cool to be singing along with the number one song in the country as it is to be the jaded, indifferent hipster who wants to turn you on to something that nobody else is talking about.
When I first heard Korn, they blew me away, and I've been a fan ever since.
Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.
I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
I've got these die-hard fans on Facebook, and you'd swear they haven't heard anything I've done since 1962, 1963.
Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.
My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do.
I've seen those kids at the shows, I can hear them, and I can certainly tell the difference between one of our fans and a Fall Out Boy fan who's just there because they heard we were hot.
Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.
When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.
I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.
We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.
I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.
I rock with Chance, I rock with Kanye, I rock with Common.
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
