Vocation Change Quotes

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.

I've watched people quit YouTube to become doctors.

As a little kid, I'd put on shows for my family. I would sing songs and play piano. I thought while growing up in high school that I would stick with music and try to make a career out of that. As I gave it an honest, real shot, I realized it was not for me.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.