Quotes About Influence

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

I'm so into the Boss and who he is, and I've read all his books, and I've watched every DVD, and I love every bit of his music: I would hate for, like, something to happen and ruin it for me. You know what I mean?

My mom was very much alpha. I admired her because she was the working mom on the go. She's such a boss. She's an OG, as they say.

The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money.

There was a reason they called me 'the female boss' in N-Dubz - I did all the talking.

Your manager is your boss and tells you what to do, what to wear and who to be, so our relationship changed. I loved him with all my heart, but felt he'd stopped looking at me as a wife. I became a product.

The woman is always the boss.

Bigg Boss' has given me a more mature audience.

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

I think I had a lot to do with why there's even a thing such as 205 Live. In the past, when they started that, they didn't even acknowledge me. I've gotta lie to tell you that that didn't bother me.

It doesn't bother me to have people looking up to me, because I don't think I say anything too crazy or over the top where people can't look at me as a role model.

I have the voice of a social activist and I have the voice of the Pakistanis as well. So I can't be bothered about what people think.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.

The American people's vote can't be bought.

Outside of Bounce, I listen to Beyonce, Sia, Rihanna.

The bigger artists are definitely looking and paying attention to the culture and the style of bounce music.

Sometimes the ball isn't always going to bounce your way. But you've got to find a way to affect the game.

My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, 'Chunky, chunky.' She liked the name and it stuck.