Erin McKean Quotes

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

I see comments occasionally about the way I speak but it goes straight over my head. You speak the way you speak and it is a silly thing to judge someone on.

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

It’s not hard to be popular if you take a poll to find out what it means to be popular.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

We are shaped by our conversations.

Cussing ain't for everybody.

I put the cult in culture.

Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.

California starts a lot of trends.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

I just wanna be relevant.