Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to. — 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
We thought of a boring name, Sparks, and put a boring photo of us on the front of the second album, 'A… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
A lot of times people ask about Sparks songs: are they autobiographical in a way? And we don't think so much that… — 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
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
We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We can be a rock band if want to be. We can be an electronic group if we want to be. We… — 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
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
I think we've always been a bit delusional and at the start we really did feel we were a cool, British-style band,… — 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
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
People have always commented along the way that, 'You guys are always so visual in what you do.' The songs have always… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
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… — 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
We always turned to the U.K. bands because they were bigger than life and celebrated not only a strong, vital, vibrant musical… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
When the idea of doing all of our albums in their entirety came up, we went for it because it just seemed… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We were so naive. You know, like thinking that playing one gig out in the middle of nowhere in Texas was going… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We're quite traditional in that we prefer the idea that people can hear a song on the radio or television and then… — 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
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
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
