We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government Issue - to bands who weren't straight edge, like Negative Approach. I really feel they were one of the greatest punk bands ever.

Davey Havok

I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.

Ada Hegerberg

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

Agnes Varda

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

AJ Lee

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

Alan Zweibel

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

Albert Hammond, Jr.

It wasn't until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women's World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.

Alex Morgan

Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.

Alexandre Pato

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

Andra Day

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

Andre Schurrle

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Andres Iniesta

For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.

Aneurin Barnard

I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.

Anushka Shetty

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

Art Alexakis

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

Awkwafina

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

B. B. King

Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.

Ben Falcone

We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to overshare on social media, but when I was growing up, all you knew about these people was what they allowed you to see - which was them doing superhuman things, up on stage in an arena with all these people going crazy.

Ben Gibbard

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

Beth Ditto

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Bobby Bones