Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.

If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.