Patrick Stump Quotes

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'

David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.

Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.

Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.

Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. She wrote the playbook for it. There is no female pop star - and probably few men today, for that matter - who are not indebted to her in one way or another for her contributions to the industry.

I downloaded a Kylie Minogue album and it had all the classics like 'I Should Be So Lucky' and 'Locomotion.' I'm not even ashamed to say I love it, I'm proud.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we've had camp, glam popstars from the 80s - your George Michaels and what have you - but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.