Down and Quote by Dan Bejar

It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up…

— Stephen Malkmus

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

— Charli XCX

When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a 'Kelly…

— Ricky Reed

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going…

— Alison Goldfrapp

My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records…

— Will Oldham

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My…

— Todd Rundgren

I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as…

— Moby

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

— James Taylor

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want…

— Roger Waters

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

— David Sylvian

My goal as an artist is to funnel a pop record to a world in a very interesting way. I almost want to trick…

— Lady Gaga

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and…

— Daniel Powter