Quotes About Balance

I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good.

I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.

I have been thinking quite a lot about retiring... it is getting very difficult to be both a player and a manager.

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it's ability.

I would prefer to get more sleep, quite frankly, because I think I would be more productive at everything.

There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.

If you've ever been a person who is running a successful brand or business and with someone who is doing the same, but in a different career path, you know that times can be tough. You're both always away. You're exhausted at the end of the day. Sometimes the relationship isn't being put first, but does that mean, 'Oh, you call it quits?' No.

Something can be said for quitting for a little while. You can get completely drained as a performer and creator. You have to fill back up.

I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that.

It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

I eat everything and some days I eat too much, but I read this quote, 'if you cant control what you eat, you cant control anything in life.' It keeps playing in my head and then I exercise a lot.

I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.