Quotes About Pressure

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.