Priorities Shift Quotes

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Before becoming a father, I wanted to be No.1, but now I feel that there is no such thing. I just want to do my job and entertain as long as I can, because that's the best way to win people over.

They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.

So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f--ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.