Wale Quotes

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.'

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

I love my pop music.

I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to.

'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.

My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don't know.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

I'm not a big disco guy.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.