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
Ron's songwriting and my singing are something that can't be detached from each other. They are inseparable. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
When you have done something that was really well received, it's a challenge to follow it up. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Within pop music, within three-minute songs, the exciting thing is to see how you can reshape the formula and still come up… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Over time I think we've gotten better at kind of sensing when we're just kind of going through the motions and when… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We think that we've gotten better over time editing ourselves, and when something doesn't feel right you kind of go, 'Let's put… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We don't ever consider there's any sort of limitations to how we present what we're doing. That keeps things fluid and interesting,… — 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
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
