Quotes About Influence

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

Everybody is an expert. But at Under Armour, I want people to control what they can control. Leave the pontificating to everyone else. Leave all that negative talk to everyone else.

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

You see now more girls getting involved in their sports because they can see it on TV and see these people playing, and I think - the more and more it's exposed and is out there - it will continue to grow and grow. They watch it on TV and think, 'Well, that could be me!'

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things.