Chris Cornell Quotes

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

You have kids and everything changes, and I guess before I had my kids I could do what I wanted and go where I wanted.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.

I thought I might not want to act any more after having a baby. It turns out I still enjoy it.

Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

My life has totally changed. It's like, if someone cuts me off in traffic, I used to think about stopping and pulling them out of their car to deal with them. Now that I've got a kid, I totally re-think moments like that. There are a lot of things I can't do anymore and that's probably a good thing.

I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.