Quotes About Influence

We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some stuff. And he was into all these tunings. He was showing me tunings that people like David Crosby or Neil Young used - like dropped D and open D tunings.

I didn't grow up listening to him - my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - but I lived in a flatshare for two years, and my flatmate loved Leonard Cohen. He would always play him when he got home from the studio or something.

But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

It's pretty well documented that Coach Nelson has had a big impact on my life.

There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small in the wake of someone like Nelson Mandela.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn't exist.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

I'm an R.E.M. nerd and have been since I was 14.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.