We always wanted to have a movie musical be made and be seen by a lot of people. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We love popular music and there has to be a certain amount of popularity in what you do, or you're gone. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
You can retire from your career after having a Beatle portray you in any sort of way, let alone in a music… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The 'Annette' movie is something really unique and special for us, as we were able to create not only the story for… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There's still substance and depth, but we a have a different approach to what we think that lyrics to pop music can… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel like you're working all alone out there as a band and you have no soulmates in how you see… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
You do know about us in the type of music and the lyrics and their sensibility. Through that you do know something… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We liked being able to do a movie musical that's not traditional in how a movie musical has to be. 'Annette' is… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We've never tried to make timeless music like, say, Bruce Springsteen. But we've come to realize that maybe we've had more of… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
You can do things that are darker and use non-traditional themes within a movie musical context. The music can be presented in… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The first scene in Annette is called 'So May We Start,' and, in our original version, it was a piece of music… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We had the project 'The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman' that we had done for the Swedish National Radio as a radio music… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
In music, there seems to be a myth that being authentic and genuine has to be confessional, and we think what Sparks… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I'm constantly rooting for people to do something amazing, with a new angle. Something that shocks you in the way the best… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Our goal is always to do something fresh within the confines of what pop music is and to keep challenging ourselves and… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We've always believed action speaks louder than words. I think that's helped maintain a certain aura about Sparks. People only really know… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We've always believed in investing in ourselves, so we work incredibly hard to ensure that our 'portfolio' and worth is connected to… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Within pop music, within three-minute songs, the exciting thing is to see how you can reshape the formula and still come up… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
That album, 'Lil' Beethoven,' was special to us because we wanted to try to figure out a new context to place our… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
You're always searching for that new thing you can impose on the givens of pop music - that's when the change becomes… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share
The unfortunate thing with COVID is that Ron's been working separately from me, but it hasn't stopped the flow of things. — Russell Mael Copy Share
I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the band. There's… — Russell Mael Copy Share
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,… — Russell Mael Copy Share
A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did six years… — Russell Mael Copy Share
I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something… — Russell Mael Copy Share
There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of go at… — Russell Mael Copy Share
There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come… — Russell Mael Copy Share
Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up… — Russell Mael Copy Share
As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's… — Russell Mael Copy Share
We'd been approached various times during our career about a documentary, but we always hesitated to say yes, because what we do musically speaks… — Russell Mael Copy Share
A lot of times people ask about Sparks songs: are they autobiographical in a way? And we don't think so much that they are;… — Russell Mael Copy Share
Yeah, we've been offered lots of advice over the years about not moving on from something that is successful, but it's just in our… — Russell Mael Copy Share
