Quotes About Influence

When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch - Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.

I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.

To know the first lady is to love Michelle.

Michelle Kwan was an inspiration for everyone, including me.

I learned a lot from watching actors like Michelle Gomez and Richard Coyle and Miranda Otto, but particularly in the beginning Michelle because I've never seen someone so fearlessly wild.

I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

It's a trippy and really magical experience when people like Michelle Obama are looking at you saying, 'Great job,' when all you want to do is say, 'Great job,' to the First Lady of our country.

Michelle Obama is not an average, 'It girl' woman, and I think that's why she's so fabulous.

Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president.

Michigan State means so much to my life and me.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

Funny people come from all over. I think Michigan has dark humor on lock, though. Michigan, to me, is equal parts beautiful and noticeably dark. Saginaw made me dark, hahaha.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

When you're with somebody as iconic as Mick Jagger or John Fogerty, I'm really aware that, in asking these guys to collaborate with me, I don't want to add a footnote to their career that's like, 'Shouldn't' have done that.' It's important to make sure that they're well represented.

I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.

Bollywood is a microcosm of society, it's no different from the world.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.