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I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

I was raised on pop music.

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

I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

I grew up with a wide range of music.