Quotes About Transformation

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

I was once a fairly angry person.

There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack full of rocks off of you.

I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.

Losing weight for me is about eating healthy and training hard and the weight falls off me.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

Tech never comes back the same.

I've been Tech N9ne since '88.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.