Not sure Quote by Stephin Merritt

There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.

— Santigold

You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and…

— Dylan Baldi

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

— Jason Pierce

Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second…

— LP

My view of the world changed completely when I became a mom. I'm suddenly like, 'Do pop songs always say things like this? How…

— Marisol Nichols

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

— Sigrid

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to…

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

— Lewis Capaldi

There's still substance and depth, but we a have a different approach to what we think that lyrics to pop music can be.

— Russell Mael

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And…

— Hal David

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not…

— Perfume Genius

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

— Sia