Russell Mael

If Andy Warhol asks if he can take your photo, you say yeah!

— Russell Mael

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

We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project.

— Russell Mael

We wanted to do something that couldn't be pigeonholed.

— Russell Mael

We always wanted to have a movie musical be made and be seen by a lot of people.

— Russell Mael

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

We had always been huge Anglophiles.

— Russell Mael

The first scene in Annette is called 'So May We Start,' and, in our original version, it was a piece of music…

— Russell Mael

We were this evil thing disco.

— Russell Mael

I think we've always been a bit delusional and at the start we really did feel we were a cool, British-style band,…

— Russell Mael

For all artists... you want to be loved and adored by as many people as you can. But the moral we've learned…

— Russell Mael

When you have a lengthy career, you always want to keep trying to push yourself in ways you haven't before.

— Russell Mael

A lot of the people who like Sparks, they feel like it's this well-kept secret that they're part of.

— Russell Mael

We've always believed action speaks louder than words. I think that's helped maintain a certain aura about Sparks. People only really know…

— Russell Mael

Leos focused on 'Annette' for eight years. He's not the type of director who'll have 10 films in development at any one…

— Russell Mael

There's a lot of bombast in Sparks' music.

— Russell Mael

In England in live concerts there is going lo be a big reaction to our hits.

— Russell Mael

Well, it was a dream of ours to come to the U.K. in the 70s and be given a record deal with…

— Russell Mael

Well, we've made 25 albums as Sparks, so at a certain point you want to find new ways to challenge yourself.

— Russell Mael

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

For anyone who says 'it's lonely at the top,' lemme tell you - it's great at the top.

— Russell Mael

Stamina is a huge thing when having a lengthy career like we have. Maybe it comes from the same place as having…

— Russell Mael

We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class.

— Russell Mael

We had the project 'The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman' that we had done for the Swedish National Radio as a radio music…

— Russell Mael

You do know about us in the type of music and the lyrics and their sensibility. Through that you do know something…

— Russell Mael