Quotes About Influence

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.

Janet Jackson - I enjoy her style and her dancing.

There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

Who didn't want to dance like Michael Jackson? I know I did.

Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did.

I have always admired Michael Jackson, and he's the one I get most inspiration from. I hope to become an artist like him as he won so many people's hearts and gave that love back to them through his music.

Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson. That's how Will and I got to know each other.

When I was really, really young, I was in love with Michael Jackson.

I get a lot of my inspiration from the Jackson 5 and Luther Vandross.

There probably won't be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when 'The Jackson 5' cartoon show was on when we were kids.

Of the members of the band, I'm the biggest Michael Jackson fan.

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

The first video that made me want to get into entertainment was Janet Jackson's 'That's The Way Love Goes.'

Bernie Sanders is our Jesse Jackson only more so.

My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

I don't really listen to Jacques Villeneuve anymore.

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.