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The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.

The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there...'

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

When my legs go back you can hear them jangle, once ya pop you can't stop like a can of Pringles.

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

You don't know a thing about me

When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

Which Seat Should I Take?

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third.

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

Pops: Plans for the future? Justin: Not sure yet. Pops: Well, why not? You don't got much longer in school, boy. Now's the time to figure things out, not later. Didn't anyone ever tel you that you can't spell later without the word late? Justin: I promise you, I'm doing my best to figure things out. Pops: "Doing my best" is a phrase failures use. Why don't you buy a man card and finish figuring? Me: Pops! That's so rude. Justin, I'm so sorry. Pops: What? How is a valid question rude? But all right, fine, I'll move on since baby boy can't take the heat. How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no, she means... Justin, looking desperately at me: No? Nana: Are you not sure? Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I'm sure. No means no. Nana: Well, look at you. You got no right. Now here's another, even tougher sentence for you to finish. Premarital sex is... Me: Nana! I'm so sorry, Justin. Nana: Unlike Pops, I'm not moving on, Justin? Pops: His name is Jason. Justin: Uh...uh... Pops: While you think about that, why don't you tell me how you feel about drinking and driving? Justin: I'm totatlly against it, I swear! Nana: Methinks he protests too much.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.