Quotes About Influence

I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Freddy Krueger was one of my childhood heroes.

I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do that, but when I found the guitar player, I would say, 'What advice can you give me?' And a lot of my heroes would say, 'Have your own style.' I always kept that in my head.

They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.

While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.

I get starstruck... I don't know, because a lot of my heroes are my really good friends.

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

If an adult is constantly criticizing how other people look, the girl will have a more critical voice about herself and others.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I've taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he's the best at that.

I don't want to be someone saying 'Hey, why don't you use my boy?' You can ask Mr. McMahon or anybody. Never once. Cody calls his own shots.

I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

If I'm tired, I'm trying to still say hi to a fan or still talk to that person 'cause that one meeting with them can impact how they think of me for the rest of their life.