You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
I'm happy ever since stepping back to New York.
I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.
I like to stay away from the game when I am not playing it.
I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.
Don’t get in the way when your opponents are destroying themselves.
An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.
I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.
I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.
It's kind of a weird thing when you've been at the top of a division you've been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.
Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
I don't crave publicity, you know.
People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.
If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
