When I started the business I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love give it the best there is in you seize your opportunities and be a member of the team.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning truth beauty.

In all my career in my ups and downs I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.