Quotes About Influence

Who is going to take business advice from Paul Ryan? Who? Nobody. Nobody.

It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect - it's like we're making a product.

It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.

If it hadn't been for Paul Bearer, there would not have been a Kane. For that, I'm forever grateful.

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

I've got to say, I'm a Rand Paul fan.

If it wasn't for Paul Brown, I probably wouldn't have a job because he basically evolved scouting.

My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'

I met Paul Brown, and I will never forget it.

I grew up on Julia Child, Paul Prudhomme, Sara Moulton - and obviously, Emeril's first show had a huge impact on my life.

Les Paul was my godfather.

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

I found out about Logan Paul in the traditional news.

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.

I would love to work with a Beatle: Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

Paul McCartney has always been the love of my life.

I think any time you have a show that, after you watch it, it sort of sits with you for a while, and you take pause and you talk about it, yeah, it affects your life.

My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player.

I'm trying to pave a way for everybody that wants to follow in my footsteps.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the way, just in terms of what Broadway would accept in its houses. It just blows my mind, the stuff 'Book of Mormon' gets away with. It's way farther across the line than 'Urinetown' ever was.