Adam Lambert Quotes

For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop.

I found The Doors, and thank God I found The Doors because it inspired me to do Strange Music, and it saved my life.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

You've got a lot of Tupac clones, but I don't think I'm one of them. I just think I give people a little piece of the feeling he gave them.

Without Mac Miller, there would be no GoldLink.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

There are a lot of people who wonder why Japan is a pretty consistent influence in my music, and I think it's because the reason I started writing - my intro to electronic music was Japanese music.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.

One of my biggest influences is Mac Miller, so to follow in his footsteps would be incredible. He's definitely a big inspiration to me.

Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

Who influenced me the most? I'd have to say Lauryn Hill, I think she influenced me the most.

I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me.

I was raised listening to so many wonderful females with great music.