My influences are Priest Holmes and Walter Payton,

Can Derrick Blaylock be Priest Holmes? No. But can Derrick be Derrick Blaylock? Yeah. He can go out and do a great job, and Larry Johnson can go out and do a great job.

Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we constantly surround ourselves with... we become. Reevaluate your influences your very life depends on it." ~Jason Versey

Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: Walter Helwich merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…