Quotes About Influence

I'm not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.

I've always been an outgoing guy. But I know as an athlete, I have an obligation to be a role model.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just kind of take over sometimes.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

I'll never be able to outlive Kogi. Kogi is a beast.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

Men and women of character raise strong children who are not easily influenced by the media, corrupt schools, bad friends, and the outside world.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world.

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.