Quotes About Influence

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

It's so cool, the number of emails I get from people saying I changed their life. It's pretty crazy.

Power is ultimately about the energy you emanate from within.

What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Women themselves are an emerging market.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

Much respect to Eminem - he's the greatest.

I loved Shaggy and Eminem.

XXL is the embodiment of hip-hop... Eminem even shouted it out in a song.

I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.

They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level.

As you age, you start to realize that your emotions are in your hands and not someone else's. Once you put them in someone else's hands, that's when you give them the power, and you can't change it. Only they can change it.

We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.

I don't know if cinema can change society, but if it can make us show some empathy, that's a good start.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

You want to empower people who think like you do.

It has always been important for women to empower other women.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.