Quotes About Perspective

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should!

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

New mothers should enjoy every phase of motherhood without caring about the world. Weight can be checked and controlled. Don't lose your head and mind over it.

If you are not happy when you're weightless, then something's wrong.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.