Adam Ant Quotes

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

I'm working myself to death.

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

I am tired of hustling.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

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

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.