Kevin Federline Quotes

I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

Even if the two parents have decided they can't stand the sight of each other anymore, they can still back each other up, cover for each other, and fill in the blanks for each other when it comes to their cocreated children, so that neither of them has to feel as if they're having to do it all.

Britney and I are on the same page. There are no grudges. We communicate on disciplining the kids, and if they're grounded here, they're grounded there. She's a completely different person - as the kids will tell you!

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

Co-parenting is probably the toughest situation that I've had to deal with because my ex and I really just don't get along. So, at the end of the day, I would tell any parents listening that once you're separated from your significant other - the father of your children, the mother of your children - the most important thing is the kids' happiness.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!