We always say that we don't like looking back because we think it kind of paralyzes you. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
With say The Rolling Stones you can do anything in their position so we are surprised that you always know what to… — 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
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
When you have a lengthy career, you always want to keep trying to push yourself in ways you haven't before. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Ron doesn't write with me in mind, yet he knows that my singing will always work with whatever he chooses to write. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We always wanted to have a movie musical be made and be seen by a lot of people. — 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
Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 to come… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
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 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 lyrics it's… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
