Grip interview (1997)
Context: The most important of my achievements, if you want to call them that, was that I successfully introduced mystical ideas into pop culture, which was my obsession and my compulsion when I was 16 years old. So, behind all of this fame and fortune, there was a seeker, on a spiritual path — a young man who wanted to discover and share with others an alternative way of looking at the world. I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. And there was the Buddhist way, and the Celtic way.
“That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do… I embrace pop culture.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Lady Gaga Gives CNN Her Unique Recipe for Success http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFGchzvu41k <br class="br">Context: That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
Steve Irwin (1962–2006) Australian environmentalist and television personality
from Crikey! What an Adventure on Animal Planet, 2007nb
“My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)
Context: My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter XVII, Contract And Tort In Modern Law, p. 322
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
"The Rise of the New Groupthink," Opinion section of The New York Times, online January 13, 2012; in print January 15, 2012.
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
BuzzFlash interview (2004)
Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer
Source: Interview, 2009, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/alber-elbaz
Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States
Source: Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It
John Derbyshire (1945) writer
Because Hollywood produces nothing but crap, crap, crap. <br class="br"> Unpleasant Truths: A conservative view of the world today http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080202.asp, National Review August 2, 2002.
