Quotes About Influence

I've got a group chat with my friends, and they were telling me I was blowing up on Twitter. I don't really look into those things, though.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.

Salman Khan is always aware of what I am doing. He is my check point for everything I do, what I should do and what I shouldn't.

I'm always checking other people's opinions.

In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

I never watched 'Cheers,' actually.

I didn't listen to Girls Aloud growing up - no way. Too cheesy, man!

It's cheesy but my parents have been my coaches my whole life.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.

I think some of the English players at Chelsea run the club, pretty much.

There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'

If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he'd look at me and say, 'It's good to be king.' And then he'd say, 'But you know what's even better? To rule the world.'

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the industry.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.