I like Nirvana, but I couldn’t say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

I’m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I’m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Look at people that influenced me – but I didn’t know if I had that sort of ‘I’m going to take you under my wing’ person.

I was influenced a lot by those around me – there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement… Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear....

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.