Quotes About Impact

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

I think everybody's got a little Elvis in them.

As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.

It's so cool, the number of emails I get from people saying I changed their life. It's pretty crazy.

When I get an email from someone who says, 'Your book was the first book I ever read,' or, 'Your book is what made me love reading,' it's just such an honor.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Radio is about emotion.

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I try to keep very simple ideas and keep them as emotionally powerful as possible.

People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.

I don't know if cinema can change society, but if it can make us show some empathy, that's a good start.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

When you empower women, it's not just what's happening in her family: it's whats happening in her community and what's happening with her children.

I want everyone to feel empowered. Everyone can do something.

It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

It's amazing what a little encouragement can do.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.