It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.
I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
It's good for me to be involved in different things.
What's the average time you live on earth - like 60, 65 years? Basketball's gonna take up half of it. I'd like to be successful in the other half, too.
I have an inspired career other than just singing.
I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.
What I would say to anyone who wants to be a model is, have something else. This shouldn't be your be-all and end-all in life: there are so many other amazing things to be done in the world. I also think that the industry really celebrates a woman who does something else. So keep at it, but always have something else.
I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.
I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.
The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.
Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.
Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in music are just in music and can dedicate all their time to that and I can't do that, so I really want to have both things and I'm just trying to figure out how.
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
