Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always associate with pure creativity, but it's all worked out nicely.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories. When I'm not, then I really have to learn how to live life and make use of the time properly. I'm not always great at making those decisions, but when it comes to working, my time is totally taken up. I have no option except to get up early in the morning and to work on that movie and to finish. But I take that with a pinch of salt, because I also love my time off.

Love your life, poor as it is.

Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

I just want to move forward with what I love to do. I also love to travel and I love my family. If I have a gig and I'm going to do that, great. If not, I'll go visit my family or do a bit of traveling. I try to keep life full, in every way.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.