Quotes About Balance

I hate big shots of adrenaline. It means you don't have enough margin.

Keep your head on your shoulders.

Keep your head on your shoulders - even when you think your head is on your shoulders, sometimes it isn't!

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

There is more to life than show business.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I get up in the morning, I take a shower, and I go to practice. When I'm finished, the only thing that's on my mind is to go back home and spend time with my family.

I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.

People can be very serious with me, and expect me to be very businesslike all the time. So I have to help them get over that by showing them that I enjoy life.

Don't run after shows and money.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

The only way to do everything in your life is to find awesome people to lean on so you can focus your time.

It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.

Meditation has changed so many aspects of my health that when I don't do it, I feel awful.

I do an awful lot of thinking but, I also do an awful lot of dancing.

Nightwish is my band, and so is Revamp. They both get my 100 percent, which is why I also cannot do them both at the same time. They're both my babies.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

I do try to schedule out the week and I do make sure that when I get home, I'm done. That's when my emails can get really backed up because when I get home I need to be totally present for the kids.

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.