Quotes About Influence

I don't want to lie to my subscribers, so I'm really honest about my reviews and stuff.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.

Your entire world revolves around your kid, especially when you are a dad to a girl child. Your responsibilities become more.

At some high schools, you're the star player, and everything revolves around you.

It's really rewarding working with young people.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.

The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

I don't know who Little Richard is.

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor.

Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.

I'd love to work with Rick Rubin. He made some pretty seminal records.

Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs' Country stuff.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.