Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

Pop music will never be low brow.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

It's so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there's a lot of terrific stuff out there," he said. "There's no irony to it. It's not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or earnest. Or to have melody. Sure, you can blame it for being naive, but isn't that refreshing next to the whiny navel-gazing that came after it?

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.