Vonda Shepard Quotes

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

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

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

The two together are a really great combo: the family life and then being able to go play some shows and write.

My whole life has been about working and being in the girl group and being on stage and being an actress, but now I get to really enjoy a bigger purpose, which is motherhood, so I'm really excited.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.

When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.