Quotes About Influence

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.