Band Quote by Craig Finn

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the…

— Graham Coxon

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or…

— Graham Coxon

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

— Grimes

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.

— Donnis

The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi

— Hussein Nishah

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

— Chic Murray

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

— Russell Mael

“Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome” and “sucks”, which for a vast range of human endeavour, actually,…

— Thomas Pynchon

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in…

— Cee Lo Green

I like 'Yabai!' That just rolls off the tongue. It means sick, wicked in Japanese.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock