John Tesh Quotes

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

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

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'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

It's been pretty wild, but the teaching schedule is a pretty awesome fit for wrestling. No weekends, all summer, and plenty of sick time.

Even when I was working at The Village Voice, I only put in about 20 hours at the office.

After two years in TV, I realized that I need a break from 9 to 5 routine work. I just wanted to explore and get back to movies for a while.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

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.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.