There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad ' when it's popular and you're the lead you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture including TV magazines movies and video games.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity but from their point of view show business was no way to make a living.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.