“If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that ...” — John Popper Quote

“If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that lasts. I think that's what any good art is.”

“We need to update laws to ensure that songwriters and artists can practice their art and maintain a career from their renowned works. We need to make sure those creators get paid fairly when others use their work.”

“We let people tape our shows and share those tapes because we felt our live performances were for the people. We took a very Grateful Dead attitude toward that.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”

“I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.”

“Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.”