Andy Partridge Quotes

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

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.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.

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 depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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.

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

When I wasn't touring I'd be really down, then suddenly after a few weeks of crazy travelling - America, a double headline with Ray Davies in Denmark, TV shows here and just partying... Suddenly I had an acute psychotic breakdown.

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.

Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.

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

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

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.