Quotes About Influence

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.

Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

I think sober is the new black. That's the cool thing now. I'm trying to make it the cool thing.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

My heroes were always soccer players.

My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.

I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.

Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I had some pretty wild contract demands. 'I'll only play if you're my coach.' So my mom went to the library and brought home a bunch of books on how to coach soccer, and that was it. She was my first manager.

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.