Quotes About Influence

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

There's always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started for you and keep reminding yourself of that.

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.

What I keep going back to, and what keeps me going, is trying to do good in whatever little spot of the world we can influence, no matter how small.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

Getting the spot of 'Blue Peter' changed the path of my life.

I think young people can spot when people believe what they are saying and when people aren't believing what they are saying, and when I was a kid, I really did believe what Ric Flair and Randy Savage and Bret Hart said in their promos. I think there has to be some believability.

I've always had a soft spot for women because of my mom. Just their power.

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an entire rainforest to make this thing, and it had all these records in it. Some were rock, some were reggae, but a lot was blues - Ray Charles, Chuck Berry and all that stuff.

I'm aware that what I say is going to reach a lot of people so I'm always very careful. But I'm human and I screw up - I'm not very good at saying things on the spot - so I'll say something and go, 'aw, man, I should have worded that better than I actually did.'

My Spotify consists of... definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.

I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify.

I've really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I've really only discovered it from friends.

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that's what country music is now.

I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they presume you will like, and eventually you like it.

I realized, if I don't step into the spotlight, and the person next to me doesn't step in, and the people around me don't step in, then who will?

Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

Being in the public eye and basically growing up in the spotlight, we are always responsible for our actions.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.