Peter Kay Quotes

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

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

You do things for your kids you won't do for yourself.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

As a mom, my priorities have changed.

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.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.