Quotes About Impact

As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

The world is a better place with Walmart in it.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I get people who come up to me and are like, 'You make me wanna live my dream.' I was them, so I'm like, 'Me, out of all people? No way.' Eddie Guerrero did that for me, so to have little girls and guys tell me I inspire them, I didn't know that came with the job, but it's so cool.

I love to, you know, just inspire people however they wanna take it.

When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I just like to do things that people can remember, but I wanna always do my own album and make statements.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.