Quotes About Boundaries

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

I don't go out with random people.

There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

People didn't like me because I didn't take any garbage.

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

I have a lot of friends, and it's not necessary that if I go out for lunch or dinner with someone, they have to be my girlfriend; or that I'm committed to them.

I don't want everyone to know when I go out with my son or my girlfriend for lunch or dinner.

I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

There is a glimpse of me that I'd like to keep private. And I believe that is necessary for my kind of sanity. I'd not like the world to know everything about me.