Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those BANDS, at their core, are just really INCREDIBLE pop music and I THINK a LOT of that stuff has DEEPLY affected the way I approach music.

I don't THINK Wayne Rooney WOULD be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really SUFFER with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got OLDER.

The only KIND of coercion I RECOMMEND is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the MAJORITY of the PEOPLE affected.

I don't come from an artistic FAMILY, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see 'Appointment With a High-Wire LADY' at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it AFFECTED me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an ACTOR.

The grotesque has never really AFFECTED or frightened me. I GUESS it's real-life STUFF that frightens me much more.

The media has affected EVERYBODY's consciousness MUCH more than most PEOPLE will admit.

The government's goal is to PROVIDE income support for FAMILIES most AFFECTED by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.

My mum and dad GOT divorced when I was nine and my BROTHER was seven, and all they strived to do was to MAKE SURE we weren't AFFECTED.

Each year, about 45 million PEOPLE are affected by WAR. Three hundred thousand people DIE looking down the barrel of a GUN - and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.

If you BELIEVE in equality, if you believe in STANDING up for the rights of all, especially for PEOPLE most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be PRESENT and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the SCIENCES of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ENDS for which these pure sciences are used are LESS elegant.

My personal aesthetic is to be affected DIRECTLY by EVERYTHING about what you're seeing... I don't MIND being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long TIME and still ROCK.

Choose SOMETHING you are passionate about - or a PAIN POINT that has affected you and that you feel REALLY needs to be changed.