Kelis Quotes

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

I honestly don't want to act anymore.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

I hate entertainment.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.