Quotes About Influence

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

It doesn't make a difference to anybody if I accept or quit a film.

I will never quit TV because TV has made me what I am today.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything: history quite a lot. Balloons and wars and old football players. The Clash.

John Bonham was a good friend of mine. I knew him a bit as a kid. I hung out with him quite a lot.

I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we buy, often who we talk to, is all shaped and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

Quite frankly, anything you have you will be told is detrimental or is an asset by whomever you run into, and in the end, you can't listen to anybody about anything.

Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration, but appropriation - because quite frankly, they're lost and their role models are increasingly questionable.

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.