Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.