Quotes About Reflection

I take things too seriously.

I write all my sermons.

Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the time, because that was the sermon that was life changing for me.

It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

When it's going tough in a session I have a little think about why I'm doing it, what I'm getting up for and why I'm putting myself through it.

I've had a series of setbacks in my life, which I've written about.

You can learn a lot from setbacks.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

I'm real settled with what I've done. The albums are really fun to make but I don't really like to be out on the road now.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

I've worked on my shot a lot, had a lot of time to think about it and I'm sort of settling into it.

When Take That came around my band had just come to an end and I was settling into acting life.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

Regardless of what happens, when I'm seventy years old, I can look back and say that I did this the way I wanted to, on my terms, and I gave it everything I got.

Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

I was kind of lost for several years.