Charlyne Yi Quotes

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I am not much on down-time. I'm ADHD, and I gotta be moving.

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

I've got no attention span.

I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.

I'm so ADD.

Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is what you're doing,' he's fantastic. But you have to hold him down. Like, when he had to write his verse for 'Hello Nasty,' we had to take his phone away to get him to do it.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.

I don't have the time to be bored.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.