Quotes About Struggles

I'm primarily interested in examining human issues.

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

There's different problems to face every day, man.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

Pretty girls have problems too.

We all have the same problems with family or friends, boyfriends, all that stuff.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

I've always had problems with guys!

'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was just stuff that I was dealing with.

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

First episodes are difficult things to write.

My difficulties belong to me!

We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

My job is to show our humanity, and the only way to be leading with that sort of humanity is to lead with the problems that a family like this might be encountering and putting those on display.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

After the first couple of games I hadn't scored and you start putting an extra bit of pressure on yourself, and the longer that goes I think it becomes more difficult.