Quotes About Influence

My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

Pearl Jam were a part of my growing up.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don't ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can't talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.

If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.