Julie Plec Quotes

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

I am learning how to strike a balance between my professional and personal life.

I think it is up to each one of us to find the time and strike a balance between work and our personal life.

I don't drink or party. There's literally no time for that. As soon as I finish a show, I go straight back to the hotel room, do emails, I sleep, that's it.

Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I don't take vacations.

I don't take time off.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I'm such a workaholic.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I'm an entrepreneur, so I've got to be ruthless about 'me' time if I want to have any left to myself! I make myself leave the office by 8 or 9 P.M. most nights, even if I do curl up with my laptop and a glass of wine at home to get through email.

My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.