Quotes About Routine

During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

If I'm feeling really, really crappy, it sounds so cliche, but if I wake up extra early in the morning and do some sort of physical activity, I usually feel a little bit better. Or I do other things that make me happy.

I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting.

Feeling physically strong in the morning truly helps me keep focused the rest of the day.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

You can have an awesome physique by doing just 25 minutes exercise a day. That's all I do.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

I play piano every day.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

The love for fitness is something I picked up from my dad, and I make it a point not to miss working out.

The negative thing about working on a breakfast show is that the alarm goes off at 2:15 A.M., and I get picked up at 2:30 A.M. That's just insanely early.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

I drink almost a bottle of pickle juice every day, man, and it keeps me going great.

I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.

My dad had the longest, silkiest, healthiest hair you've ever seen on a man. He had an extensive skincare routine. He was very picky with food. He never ate with his hands.