Quotes About Adversity

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Let's face the music and dance.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

You can't take the sky from me.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.