It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
I can try new genres because I know there are fans who will always be there to support what I would like to pursue.
I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.
I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.
The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.
I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
