Bruce Dickinson Quotes

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.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

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.

I don't want to play anymore. I'm tired of football but also tired of people who work in football.

The first time in my career I thought it makes no sense anymore, that I'll retire.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

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

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.

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

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

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

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.

I would have done something else in life. Something more calming, in a different area where I did not have to use my emotions.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

I am completely done with music.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.