Quotes About Rejuvenation

A dark room with some low-level whale music and a flat bed and a woman pulling your shoulder back and forth is a happy place.

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

I'm blessed enough to been in the game for a while and still have my beautiful fans and still have the respect. That's something that gets me going. I'm also fortunate enough to take vacation and take a little hiatus.

I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

We're very privileged to collaborate with people to keep ourselves fresh and it gives us a shot in the arm to do things a different way.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

When I get out of the studio, I want to disconnect from music. I would rather spend time with my family or watch a movie. I cannot take any more music.