Quotes About Influence

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

Every President wants to do right.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.