Quotes About Influence

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

The impact that you can leave on the other person through your films holds way more weight than just being seen at a party or any other appearance, or being seen at a freaking airport.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

Eddie Cochran - I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.

I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.

I don't own Hollywood.

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.

Hollywood was never great for children.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.