Ken Kesey Quotes

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

As I've grown in the league and in life, having my kids around and seeing their growth and development is special and it's something I wouldn't trade for all the jobs in the world.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.