Quotes About Struggle

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Joy always came after pain.

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Life comes with pain.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

The nature of the game is pain.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'