Sheryl Crow Quotes

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

I do watch a lot of YouTube.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.