I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

Me having my moms and pops in my life and knowing and seeing what they went through for us - it's why I'm a good father.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Whether I'm going out for the night, or during the day, I love putting on something that pops and makes you feel comfortable.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

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.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

'The Franchise' is that guy that never had an off switch. Whatever pops into his head, he says. Whatever he wants to do, he does.

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.

My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

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.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

I just had that mindset to never settle. That's a credit to my pops, too. He used to say 'the sky's the limit' every time we talked.

Cordae is like my government name. I was like, just be myself. What's a better name than the name my mom gave me, or my pops gave me?

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

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.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

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.

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

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

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