Quotes About Influence

In my head, I'm a big Kobe fan.

Kobe meant a lot to me growing up.

I listen to Migos. I listen to Drake a lot. Also 21 Savage, Kodak Black, XXXTentacion.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

You never really know what's inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.

China is dead set on making Hong Kong more like it.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

Football can make things different, and football can make change around the world. I hope football can do something for Korea.

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

I'm active on social media because that's such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

I would not say that the North Koreans will do anything that the Chinese want them to do.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Eminem is like a God to me. Besides that, Kurt Cobain has been my evergreen musical guru.

I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the reason that I work out so hard.

Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.

Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.