Quotes About Career

It's a funny thing having a recording be part of your career. It means you can go back and revisit yourself, in a way most people don't.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

I never thought I'd be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

It's one thing to be recognized by your peers over the course of your career, but the Grammy is something else altogether. You have the Recording Academy, along with a huge cross-section of producers, writers, engineers and musicians from all different musical genres and backgrounds who are making a decision. It's an amazing feeling.

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.

I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

I have been working on one film at a time. One film recovers a little cost and that helps me move on to the next one.

During your career, you have to make decisions. Sometimes maybe you don't make such a good decision and at the end you have to try and recreate a position.

Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.

I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.