I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.
I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.
I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.
I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.
The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.
I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.