Quotes About Influence

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam.

I love the spirit of early pop punk and we incorporated that into our earlier albums.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than I did at school, because that got me into fashion, politics.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

But the more successful I became as an actor, the less control I had. I became more of a puppet, really. It certainly felt like that, at least.