My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn’t have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don’t pay attention to it after the fact.
I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like ‘Ungrateful Eyes,’ with all the crazy drum swing.
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.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those were my main influences.
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
Food is an integral part of Caribbean life – it’s diverse just like Caribbean culture, with flavour influences from India, Europe, China, South America and Africa.
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock ‘n’ roll and ex-wives. In that order.
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I’ve always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don’t wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me.
