Quotes About Influence

I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.

We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

Bankers also play politics.

Azealia Banks - love what she's doing.

I'm like the Russian Tyra Banks.

The Rock has definitely set the bar. He's in a class by himself, and he always will be, I believe.

Television had a black president long before Barack Obama.

Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

My role model was always Xavi Hernandez from Barcelona.

My father is a massive Barcelona and Atletico fan because he used to play in those teams.

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

But you base everything on people you know.

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.