Goapele Quotes

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.

I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

I thought I might not want to act any more after having a baby. It turns out I still enjoy it.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.