Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.