Quotes About Boundaries

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.

I don't mind being called Maddy at all, but I mind the closeness that you assume you get by calling me by my pet name. So merely by calling me Maddy, I don't give you the authority to come and put your hand around my shoulder.

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

I start the day just with the family. I don't check emails until my commute, and I make sure my phone isn't close to me until I'm out the door.

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

I put my phone on 'do not disturb' a lot.

My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

I don't take private phone calls from the Trump Administration anymore.

It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

There is no part of me that wants to have to pull the blinds down when I'm talking to my wife about dinner because some photographer is in a bush outside.

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.