Boring Quote by Ron Mael

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

— Isaac Hanson

People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

— Darren Hayes

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those…

— Katie White

In the U.S., many people thought what we were doing was frothy, silly, just not serious enough. The kind of pop role-playing we were…

— Ron Mael

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might…

— Michael Stipe

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

— Casey Spooner

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

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

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

— Luke Hemmings

We always turned to the U.K. bands because they were bigger than life and celebrated not only a strong, vital, vibrant musical sensibility, but…

— Russell Mael

We didn't get into this to be a cool indie band. When radio caught on, that made a little more sense. We write catchy…

— Jesse Rutherford