Quotes About Perspective

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

Gratitude is important. One has to look beyond oneself to see that while there may be people who are far better off, one has been given so much more than so many.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

I've gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don't think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.

Everybody has an angle. The only time I say no to an interview is when someone says they don't have an angle. I know right away that that's not honest.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

I had one guy say, 'I watched your show and didn't agree with what you said.' And I'm like, 'It's a joke. How could you not agree? I can understand you saying it's not funny.' But it's like my going onstage and doing a knock-knock and somebody going, 'I disagree. There's no door here.'

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?