"I'm more ghetto, and ballroom is more vanilla. I've had to learn how to be vanilla." —Lance Bass on adapting to Dancing With the Stars [MTV]

"I mean, we're basically No. 1 if you look at DVR. And you look at all that. So the public is watching it." —Brooke Shields neglects to mention that she owns a million DVRs [US]

"TV doesn't really seem to satisfy people over the long haul the way that social involvement or reading a newspaper does." —University of Maryland sociologist John P. Robinson [University of Maryland]

"We might make fun of The Decemberists, but shit, in 2008, who shouldn't?" —Chunklet's Henry Owings [A.V. Club]

"They buy tons of vinyl. Or maybe it's Skyler's last name, Skjelset, which is pretty Scandinavian." —Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold on why they're big in Sweden and Norway [Pitchfork]

"I do sometimes feel for the Steven Spielbergs of the world, because they're playing to people who are not using their imaginations. I know our audience will do that." —Wayne Coyne on Christmas on Mars [MTV]