'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
You are bound to pick up influences.
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.
I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
In terms of social media, I try to have my voice heard loudly in the cacophony of other influences whether from television and the Internet or social media... I want my voice to be heard in terms of the standards and values that I try to pass on to my kids.
Always my collections are made of different influences.
