You can retire from your career after having a Beatle portray you in any sort of way, let alone in a music… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There are exceptions, obviously, but you wish there was more that made you go, 'God, I wish we'd come up with that!'… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I'm constantly rooting for people to do something amazing, with a new angle. Something that shocks you in the way the best… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
In a way, we've been around long enough to know from earlier periods that we were on the right side. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
A lot of times people ask about Sparks songs: are they autobiographical in a way? And we don't think so much that… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Being overtly political just seems, for us, too easy of a target to be doing. We like to channel our creativity in… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We feel that you kind of learn about our political views and our stance on things in a more general way by… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
With 'A Steady Drip, Drip Drip,' some of the subjects that are written about on the album have come to be even… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We feel that the only way to move forward, the only way to have anything happen or have an audience be aware… — 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
In music, there seems to be a myth that being authentic and genuine has to be confessional, and we think what Sparks… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
In one way, we think it's kind of an amazing achievement what we've done. At the same time, we'd like 6 million… — 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
