Quotes About Influence

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music.

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.'

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.

I love my home state and my hometown. I'm so grateful to Birmingham and Alabama for what it made me.

Tacoma is actually my hometown, but if you live within 40 minutes of Seattle, you say Seattle.

A lot of artists have a super-specific musical hero they definitely try to hone in on. I'm basically inspired by everyone. I don't have one particular artist who I'm super-obsessed with.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

I like Honey Singh. I love the music that he does.

I don't have anything against the 'Honey Badger.' It's just that 'Honey Badger' happened at such a dark time in my life. If the little kids out there want to call me the 'Honey Badger,' they can do that.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.

My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else.