“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.”
“You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.”
| Nelson Algren, Novelist (1909) |
| Steve Ballmer, Businessman (1956) |
| Russell Banks, Author (1940) |
| Rick Barry, Athlete (1944) |
| Daniel Dennett, Philosopher (1942) |
| Richard Eyre, Director (1943) |
| Lady Gaga, Musician (1986) |
| Nafisa Joseph, Model (1978) |
| Karen Kain, Dancer (1951) |
| Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1902) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower, President (1969) |
| Dorothy Fields, Musician (1974) |
| William Christopher Handy, Musician (1958) |
| Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist (1994) |
| Emmett Kelly, Entertainer (1979) |
| Stephen Leacock, Economist (1944) |