These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
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When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren't aware of.
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
I think my parents undoubtedly influenced me on some level.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
Everything I experience influences everything I do.
It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
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