Josie Totah Quotes

I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal.

I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

I was never really a party person.

I don't go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, 'Let's see if I can get this done today.'

I'm an owl; I'm up. I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The first half of the day, you might not catch me.

If I'm up at 4 in the morning, it's because I'm just coming in.

I go to bed early - around 9 P.M. or 10 P.M. - and wake up between 2 A.M. and 5 A.M. and get an extra three hours of work done. Then I have a regular work day. It's very effective.

I sleep early and I don't party.

Sometimes I can go out all night, but I'm a girl that needs at least 8 hours of snooze, so I stay in a lot.

I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts. I'm a lot at friends.' I like to go out for dinner. I don't have to be home one night a week if I don't want to.

I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.

I'm not going to lie, I am a bit of a party animal.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.