Dan Hawkins Quotes

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.

I know where I was before, and I know where I want to go.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

It's very tempting for certain generations to say, 'Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be a rock star,' or whatever. That's not what it's about. Firstly, you've got to be in it for the love and the passion that you have for the music, and then you take it from there.

There are a lot of things that people love, they just can't do for a living.

I like people who have clarity about their work.