Scott Ellis Quotes

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

Being a mom, it's up and down; it's a little bit of a rollercoaster.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from the moment they wake up is to make them tired. It's exhausting. Anybody who's got kids knows what I'm talking about.

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

I'm never late, and I love that. Because when you've got three kids and a life to be living, and somebody's half an hour late to set, you start to get a little bit like, 'Come on. Come on, let's get this done.'

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?

I've got three kids, so there's not much downtime.

It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.