What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.
Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.
To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.
I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.
Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.
I wanted to do this so badly, to be a successful musician.
As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.
I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.
I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.