I am a workaholic, have always been.
I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'
It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
Being a rapper and still trying to pursue an education is really overwhelming sometimes.
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
Note that commuting was an already established pattern in America by 1929.
You're playing games every two or three nights, so there's no real time off.
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.
My thing is I'm always concerned about my kids and their bodies holding up in the industry. We don't have time off. They run 365 days a year and gone all the time and performing every night. I'm kind of leaning for them to go to Hollywood.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.
Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.
All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.
With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.
My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.