Yoko Taro Quotes

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

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

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I am tired of hustling.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

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.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

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

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.