Kevin Jonas Quotes

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

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

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, 'If I'm going to sing, I'm going to have to do it solo.' Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.

People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.