Quotes About Priorities

Food makes me happy. Make me work round the clock, but just feed me first!

By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.

There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

I mean, you can't really enjoy some of the games that you've had. Like I think I've had a career-high night or whatever and we still lost. I'd much rather have the win and had fewer points.

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.

I believe I get the belt then I'll get the money. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It's all about the cheddar.

I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.

I don't want to be one of those guys who fights until they're 38, 40 years old. I don't want to put my wife through that, and I don't want to put my kids through that.

If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I'm here for the big fights. I don't care about the little fights any more.

When you don't have to worry about the financial side, you can truly concentrate on the craft. You can truly concentrate on the fights you really want to have. You have that freedom and it's extremely important especially when you have a family and you have to provide.

I dropped chemistry because there was a cute boy, and I figured out if I dropped chemistry, I would be in his drama class.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

When guys were going out to parties, I was going to the gym. I figured, for all my mom sacrificed for me, it was the least I could do.