We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like…

— Chris Lowe

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things…

— Cassadee Pope

I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of…

— Mark Hoppus

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as…

— Stephin Merritt

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label…

— James Iha

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows,…

— Nuno Roque

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

— Geezer Butler

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

— Charlie Simpson

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop.…

— Lights

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

— Isaac Hanson

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.

— Rick Nielsen

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to…

— Eddie Trunk

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was…

— Charlie Simpson