Quotes About Influence

My biggest inspiration was always early Iron Maiden, because it was the only band I knew for some time, and, as we all know, Iron Maiden is great.

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and trying to play guitar and develop my chops. I was a big fan.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.

I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

No Israeli leader is a king.

I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.