Straighten Quotes

(on writing his memoir, "Slash") The only reason I wrote it is because a lot of the stuff I was reading and seeing about the band got pretty frustrating. I just had to straighten out some shit.

I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris or Lindsay seem to is that I`m not stupid, so I`d never do a lot of the things those girls do, and I`ve always had good friends around me. They need to straighten up a little bit and make better investments. And they should surround themselves with better people who don`t let them get themselves in trouble. You`ll never read a story about me going out and partying when I`m supposed to be working. Nor would I show up on a set drunk or miss a day`s work - never.

I liked the hard-core truth of `Rude Awakening`. But when I first read it, I was scared of it. Part of me was, like, it`s so unattractive! Does she have to vomit on herself? Does she then have to fall in it? God, what`s going on here?! But I liked that it didn`t glamorize alcohol. And what`s admirable about Billie is that she`s a straight shooter. She doesn`t have a lot of pretense. It`s like, `Take me as I am. You like me, fine! You don`t, I don`t give a damn! There`s something quite empowering about somebody who doesn`t care what other people think. Billie is learning about herself. She`s recognized that she has a problem with drugs and alcohol, and she`s trying to straighten it out. - on playing Billie Frank in "Rude Awakening" (1998)

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

I was walking in the market one time with my mom, and a manager came up because - well now I always straighten my hair, but then I had big brown curly hair and she`s like, `Oh you should be in acting. She seems like she`d be good in doing commercials.` So my mom looked into it and got me into an agent.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

This is my depressed stance. When you`re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you`ll start to feel better. If you`re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you`ve got to stand like this.

he said, ``you`d straighten up your act.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

If you can`t stand a little sacrifice and you can`t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we`re never going to straighten this country out.

I do not believe that any mental illness exists other than demons, and no medication can straighten it out, other than the power of God.