J. J. Cale Quotes

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.