Quotes About Struggle

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I struggle because I really don't want to be married again - can you blame me? - but I don't want to be alone.

I've always thought in the back of my mind I could do something really special with my life and I was just on a real path to not achieving that, and I blame that on alcohol.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

Everything that I sing about, especially songs like 'Far From Home' and 'The Bleeding,' I really put 110 percent of myself into it, so it's difficult.

I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

I haven't had a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I'm doing my best to be responsible with that success.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

That's what you gonna get with me: the dark aspects of life. Of course, you've got to have some type of light in there, but if it was all light, you'd be blinded. You've got to balance them out.

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

The single 'Tha Block Is Hot' was a song that was true to life.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.