Quotes About Influence

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.

'Hannah Montana' gets no disrespect from me because it's certainly done me a lot of favors.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.

So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month, which is completely cool.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.

You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

Growing up I was a Cleveland Browns fan and my mood would change based on how they were playing. If they were losing I wasn't as happy, I wasn't as excited, I was a little sad.

I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

When I think about power, it's not about having money. It's about changing people's lives, changing people's moods. To me, it's a blessing to have that power.

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.