Russell Mael

We're always working.

— Russell Mael

We had always been huge Anglophiles.

— Russell Mael

We were this evil thing disco.

— Russell Mael

When you're a fan of somebody you want to be a fan in all sorts of ways.

— Russell Mael

We're more L.A. than those guys sitting on their porches in Laurel Canyon.

— Russell Mael

There are all these safety nets in pop music.

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

Rollercoaster' is probably something we should have said no to!

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

We're never lumped in as being an L.A. band in any kind of context.

— Russell Mael

Bands can get lazy after 20 albums. But that's not us.

— 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

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

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

— Russell Mael

Sometimes you feel like you're working all alone out there as a band and you have no soulmates in how you see…

— 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

We can be a rock band if want to be. We can be an electronic group if we want to be. We…

— Russell Mael

I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and…

— Russell Mael

We always say that we don't like looking back because we think it kind of paralyzes you.

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

— Russell Mael

Yeah, we've been offered lots of advice over the years about not moving on from something that is successful, but it's just…

— Russell Mael

Being overtly political just seems, for us, too easy of a target to be doing. We like to channel our creativity in…

— 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

We've been working for four years on a musical called 'Annette' and we met the French director Leos Carax at the Cannes…

— Russell Mael

There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of…

— Russell Mael

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…

— Russell Mael

Annette' came out I think the same week as 'Jungle Cruise,' and it's kind of almost working in two different mediums. They…

— Russell Mael

We feel that the only way to move forward, the only way to have anything happen or have an audience be aware…

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to.

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

We're seen as more part of an English scene.

— Russell Mael

I don't drink or smoke and I look after myself.

— Russell Mael

We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did…

— Russell Mael

Our entire career has been unplanned. Things have really happened by chance, despite our best efforts to do things in a more…

— 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

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

The 'Annette' movie is something really unique and special for us, as we were able to create not only the story for…

— Russell Mael

There's still substance and depth, but we a have a different approach to what we think that lyrics to pop music can…

— Russell Mael