Influential Environment Quotes

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.

I grew up listening to everybody.

I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.