Chris Cleave Quotes

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.