Avi Kaplan Quotes

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

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

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.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

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.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

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.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.