Time & Perspective Quote by Bobby Sherman

A line like this feels less like a manifesto and more like a small act of self-defense from someone who’s spent a career being scheduled, packaged, and expected to light up on command. “I have to be motivated” is bluntly human: not inspirational, not heroic, just the admission that drive isn’t a constant resource. Coming from Bobby Sherman - a teen idol whose image was famously clean and tightly managed - it quietly punctures the fantasy that pop stardom runs on endless enthusiasm.

The second clause is the real tell. “I’m sure time will avail itself” is an oddly formal, almost evasive phrasing, the kind of sentence you use when you’re trying to promise something without letting it become a contract. It flips agency: instead of “I’ll make time,” time becomes the actor, arriving when it chooses. That grammar is the subtext. He’s negotiating boundaries with an audience (or an industry) that tends to treat artists’ lives as infinitely expandable. It’s also a way to acknowledge burnout without naming it.

Context matters because Sherman’s cultural moment - late-60s/early-70s pop - was a factory line of visibility: tours, TV appearances, magazine covers, relentless availability. This quote reads like someone learning to reclaim pace after years of being “on.” It’s not laziness; it’s a refusal to fake urgency. The intent is to buy room for authenticity, even if the language stays politely noncommittal.