Arizona Muse Quotes

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

I wanted to start a family, but it wasn't something that I was going to take a break to do.

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

My family is my career.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.