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The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Pop was great fun.

I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.