Quotes About Perspective

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious, egotistical perspective.

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

Every side of a coin has another side.

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

I wouldn't trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating.

That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Every player brings something from their own culture into the collective.

I'm not a collector.

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I think each college experience is different for everyone.