Quotes About Influence

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.

I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

It's important to love in hip hop.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

I listen to R&B and Hip Hop.

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in a position to express ourselves.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Hopefully, my story will help change people's lives.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.