Andy Gibb Quotes

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

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.

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

I don't take time off.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.