Quotes About Influence

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

I don't know if my father realizes this, but I remember sitting there watching 'Apocalypse Now,' watching Pacino in 'Scarface' and watching James Dean in 'East of Eden' with him. And him he's not in the arts at all just pointing out 'the greats.'

In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

The people that really inspired me are the people I have now managed to become contemporaries with, like Four Tet and Floating Points. I learn so much about music just from hanging around with them.

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.

John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.

I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.

You know, 'Paid in Full' is a classic album, man. It kind of got me to where I am now, so I can never get tired of 'Paid in Full.'

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.

I come from a classical background.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

For me, it's classical music I started with and I admire Jacqueline du Pre.