Peter Ackroyd Quotes

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

I feel like if you can do multiple things, you shouldn't shy away from them.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

The fact that I do so many things, it really nurtures me.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

I have to go places beyond music.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.