Quotes About Influence

We knew of Sartre and we dressed like the French existentialists. Our philosophy then, and remember we were only little kids, was more in following their looks than their thoughts. We were going around looking moody.

I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

Every time I get dressed, I try to channel a little bit of Kanye West and a little bit of Sailor Moon.

Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

I want America to see me as a combination of the Rev. Sun Moon and a singing star. That's the image I want them to have.

Kenya Moore is everything to me. She's everything.

I think Michael Moore is a hero.

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

I really like and admire Michael Moore.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I really fell in love with.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

I'm truly convinced that by living up to the values we stand for, we can serve as a moral inspiration for others, just as we've been morally inspired by those who came before us.

I always try to have my mother's voice in my head, because I am very proud of the morals that she tried to instill in us.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.