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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

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

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

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.