Jim James Quotes

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

I don't feel like I'm slowing down.

I never stop working.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.

You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, to get away from the scrutiny and intensity. I love it but it was too much for me.

You know, I have been thinking about this a lot, and of course I had great stress during all this election campaign. And a lot of times, I was ready to step away because I wasn't sure that I had enough strength to continue.

When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.