Quotes About Struggle

I'd had a rough childhood.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

It's almost impossible to take my right hand on the chin and keep standing, and I knew that.

I've got a chip on my shoulder, but that's something I've carried with me my whole life.

The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is 'bullying.'

The whole 'SmackDown' roster has a chip on its shoulder.

In 2011, I had a big chip on my shoulder, and I felt like I had a lot to prove every time I went out there. It led to good performances, but sometimes backstage, I could be - not to the talent, but just in general - I could be angry.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

When I was 18 in Cold Chisel, I didn't want to make it to 21. Who wants to be that old?

I love chocolate, but it's bad.

Every time I say I'm going on a diet I end up eating chocolate.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

Sometimes there are no good choices.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

I remember sobbing myself to sleep because I couldn't play an open G chord.

Writing is a chore.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

A chorus is not easy.

I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.