We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are…

— Lauren Jauregui

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those…

— Beyonce Knowles

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and…

— Pharoahe Monch

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate…

— Nicole Scherzinger

I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they…

— Michael Buble

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

— Victoria Monet

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious.…

— Rudy Vallee

I love good pop songs.

— Uncle Kracker

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

— Trace Cyrus

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And…

— Hal David

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really…

— Autre Ne Veut

A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a…

— Trent Reznor

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

— David Hepworth

The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

— James Righton