David Quote by Allison Pearson

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

— Rick Springfield

Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was in college, I didn't know a lot of female guitar players. It was Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Lita Ford, Joan Jett.…

— Susan Tedeschi

People will say, 'Who are your role models, and who are your pioneers?' And the first person that comes to my mind is Billie…

— Julie Foudy

I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.

— Matt Skiba

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa,…

— Donovan

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till…

— Ophelia Lovibond

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because…

— John Travolta

People always said that time, the '70s, was about pretty boys. And then I came along!

— Al Pacino

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years…

— Stephen Dorff

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene…

— Ringo Starr

I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age.

— Troy Carter