Quotes About Struggle

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

Beating Reading's not a shoo-in. They're a good team.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

I remember my father used to beg for a loan to buy a house. He had to beg the banks for a loan.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

It was definitely harder being a girl in the industry, but sometimes you have to struggle, and you have to work harder to actually enjoy when you start getting the results.