Quotes About Influence

I'm a lead-by-example guy but also vocal because I'm the point guard.

You need the point guard to be vocal.

I'm probably going to be more of a vocal leader, which is a challenge for me with English not being my natural language.

I'm going to be a more vocal leader.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.

Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.

When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

I loved Celine Dion. I loved Whitney Houston and these big powerhouse vocals.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

'Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.