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The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.