Quotes About Influence

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

My mom raised me.

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

I was raised by women. The men in my life were either not there or not good when they were there.

I've been raised by three women.

I was raised mostly by my mom.