Quotes About Struggle

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

Yeah, I was always 'husky.' Then I got really big in high school. It wasn't alcohol weight, it was fast food/'I can never die' weight. I went from 215 to 260 in high school. Then after high school I put on alcohol weight. I was as high as 330, or 333.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I have been a fighter all my life.

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

I've wrestled all my life.

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

I've been having people doubt me all my life.

All my life I have had to fight to catch up with people. But not in the water. That's the one place where everyone else is trying to keep up with me!

I choose fighting. I change all my life.