Quotes About Influence

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

A lot of people just send me beats, and I pick the ones I like. See, once I said I was doing my album - because I know everybody and they mama - everybody just got in touch with me.

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I really respect Samantha Bee.

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

Society becomes how we behave.

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

Ancelotti immediately understood me and put me in the right situation to adapt quickly. I was 18 and, at that age, it is difficult. He helped me a lot off the field, too. He advised me on how to behave. You can say he was a father to me in the footballing world.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.