Quotes About Expression

Even though country is a large percentage of what I do. I don't want to get locked into just one area because I write a lot of different kinds of music and I like doing three-part harmony, minor chords and pop music.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

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

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I've always wanted to feel - like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

That's what I want to put out into the world - just stuff I love, tributes to my favorite pop stars.

I didn't look up to only pop stars, but I did look up to Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grimes, Robyn, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, M.I.A., Coldplay, Keane, and more.