Quotes About Impact

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

A friend gives me an abusive word and a stranger does the same!!!! Huge difference, coz what matters is WHO said IT!!!!!

It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.