The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.

Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be different.'

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.

My grandfather was a big influence on me, but I lost him when I was a kid.

You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?

The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

The name of my first comedy album was 'Raised by Cable.' Coming up and watching all of these weird movies on different channels was such an influence on me and an influence on how I do standup. It informs everything I do.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.