Quotes About Influence

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

I want to be like Madame de Stael.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

I am a Madonna fan.

Madonna taught me more philosophy than Ayn Rand.

Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.

Madrid and London are great.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

'Ebony' has been more than a magazine; it is a movement.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

My greatest inspiration is my coach, Maggie Haney.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

For me, there are a lot of people that want to hear what I have to say. There are a lot of people who want to talk to Lil B, and they care about Lil B. Without the people I wouldn't be able to reach that magnitude of engagement.

The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.

I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I think it has changed absolutely everything. It has changed truth, it has changed culture. It has certainly changed the way that we relate to each other and in a very short amount of time.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.