Darlene Love Quotes

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

Albums take a lot out of you.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

You know, here in America we only work half a day—12 hours.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

Screaming is hard after a while.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

I can't do back-to-back films.

I basically work all the time.