Edie Brickell Quotes

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

I've had deals over the years where I just haven't had good chemistry with the person across the table from me, so I've said to one of my brothers, 'You know what, you will be more effective than I will.' And that takes a level of confidence.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.

I like communicating and being open and committing. That, for me, has always been something that I like to do.

I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them.

It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.

I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.