Jade Bird Quotes

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

I am tired of hustling.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I'm working myself to death.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.