Shahid's been a big influence in my life.

Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life.

Jamaica actually had a pretty big influence on my life.

My natural bend is to get attracted towards things that have been an influence in my life.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She's one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I was a big fan of her stand-up before she even came out of the closet.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.

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