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
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 God Copy Share Image
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 Love Copy Share Image
We can be a rock band if want to be. We can be an electronic group if we want to be. We… — 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
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 Alone Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Cannes film festival Copy Share Image
The first scene in Annette is called 'So May We Start,' and, in our original version, it was a piece of music… — Russell Mael Idea Copy Share Image
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 Advice 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
We had the project 'The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman' that we had done for the Swedish National Radio as a radio music… — Russell Mael Drama 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
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
Our entire career has been unplanned. Things have really happened by chance, despite our best efforts to do things in a more… — 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… — Russell Mael Bands Copy Share Image
We always say that we don't like looking back because we think it kind of paralyzes you. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class. — Russell Mael Class Copy Share Image
We're quite traditional in that we prefer the idea that people can hear a song on the radio or television and then… — 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 Challenge 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… — 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
Stamina is a huge thing when having a lengthy career like we have. Maybe it comes from the same place as having… — Russell Mael Athletics 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
Well, we've made 25 albums as Sparks, so at a certain point you want to find new ways to challenge yourself. — Russell Mael Albums 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
We lived at the beach for three months every year when we were going to school. That was our whole thing. — Russell Mael Beach 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
San Francisco has always been a really special city to us. Every time we go, it holds that magic for us. — Russell Mael City 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
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 Action 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
No, I did not provide the backing vocals for The Kinks's 'Waterloo Sunset' - as much as I like the record. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There's a daily routine and we're pretty methodical about it. We have a work ethic. Ron shows up on time and well… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
After a few aborted attempts at movie projects, to have 'Annette' be so well received to be the opening night film at… — Russell Mael Cannes 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 had played places that were really cool that are less on the map, like the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. We played… — Russell Mael Civic Copy Share Image
We've always believed in investing in ourselves, so we work incredibly hard to ensure that our 'portfolio' and worth is connected to… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
