“I was just a kid when this album hit and since Simon was making music for people like my parents, they went out and bought it, which inevitably led to me hearing it quite often.
  
Graceland was the first album that really captured my imagination. At first just because I liked singing along with “You Can Call Me Al” in the back seat, but as I grew up I always returned to it.”

-Jason Mendelsohn (via Counterbalance No. 76: Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ < PopMatters)