If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.
I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.
My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
The Beatles and I became fast friends.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.
When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.
A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.
