Being Quote by Russell Mael

There are all these safety nets in pop music.

— Russell Mael

Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears.

— 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

I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the band. There's…

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael

A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did six years…

— Russell Mael

I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something…

— Russell Mael

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

— 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 to come…

— Russell Mael

Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up…

— Russell Mael

As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's…

— Russell Mael

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

— Russell Mael