I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop…

I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think, "Who's this…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists, as everybody…

— Aaron Bruno

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

— Charli XCX

I want to write pop music, but I don't know how. My taste keeps changing.

— Sophie Thatcher

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to…

— Nelly Furtado

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to…

— Lady Gaga

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…

— Perfume Genius

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

— Mika

I didn't set out to write pop hits.

— Domino Kirke

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

I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to…

— Aaron Bruno

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way.…

— Eddie Van Halen

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

— Sia

I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not,…

— Mark Foster

We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down…

— Katie White