It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of FRIENDS, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be STILL and become aware of ourselves. The small THINGS. The fact that we're still breathing. Our ability to move. The PRESENCE of love around and in us. Our STRENGTHS. Our opportunities. Our journeys.

I'm conscious of what BANDS we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things: if I'm going to BUY stage MAKEUP, I want to get it from companies run by women. Those are little changes that will MAKE a difference.

I ENJOY the SMALL THINGS.

A good WAY to take a baby STEP into the world of animal rights is to MAKE a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a PROMISE to do one thing on your list each month.

We go through the WHOLE season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we OBVIOUSLY GIVE ideas of what we would hope next YEAR's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and DIFFERENT positions and whatever.

The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just START making some SMALL lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of DRIVING or taking the STAIRS instead of the lift. The small THINGS you can change all add up.

When you're away from home for a fight CAMP it's the simple THINGS that you MISS the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality FAMILY time and small things like that.

Often, SMALL THINGS give me HOPE when BIG things feel so oppressively bleak.

Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to AVOID it. Because I can SEE the situation is coming, and I try to PREPARE. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an INTERNATIONAL thing, a MODERN thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.

When approaching the small THINGS, you have to know, 'If I do my job, it's going to MAKE the job easier for EVERYBODY ELSE.'

You've got to be able to go out there and do the SMALL things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman YEAR until the last two games of the SEASON. And I think that continuously not being 'The MAN' helped me as an INDIVIDUAL be able to say, 'Listen, what else do you need me to do?'

I LOVE to WRITE down things I notice about PEOPLE or things I've overheard people saying that are INTERESTING. I love people-watching, and I love taking the time to notice the small things.

I study the Bible CONSTANTLY. I TEACH the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people STUDIES. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. GIVES them DIRECTION.

It's getting too LATE in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an ARTIST. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be NAKED for a while, they fade AWAY.

If you normally GO quiet when you get ANGRY, you may not RELATE to a character that reacts very differently. But if you see someone internalising the ANGER like you do, you will immediately identify with him or her. It's these small things that penetrate your psyche and make you relate at a deeper level.