Quotes About Attitude

I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the right reasons.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that.

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

Punk music is rebellious.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

I reckon people's attitude to us is a challenge that motivates you to show them what this band can do.

When you're doing well, a lot of people will recognise it, and when you're not doing well it's the same. It is about how you deal with it and control your mentality.

In Manchester, people don't recognise me that much and tend to treat me in a more respectful way.

I don't want to sound bigheaded or anything, but when you reach a certain level of recognition or fame, or whatever you want to call it, when you're young the first couple of years you think, 'Oh, this is fun.'

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

I don't give a damn about my record.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.