John Rzeznik Quotes

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

My goal is to stay happy in my work and to do quality work.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

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

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.