Quotes About Perspective

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.

The 'Red and Meth' show was good, but it wasn't good to me. I just looked at it as an experience and a check.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

I'm always checking other people's opinions.

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.

When I was at Chelsea I thought I played well even when Ashley Cole was there.

Because of how I grew up and on 'Made In Chelsea,' I never had any challenge.

People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.

The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

My childhood was spent in a poorish neighbourhood in Leicester so that makes you cherish money more than if youd had a lot.

You really become aware of your own life, what really matters, and it's not about the car you drive or what you have materially. It's family, healthy children, and it is to be cherished.

For me, life is a bowl of cherries.

I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the industry.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.