Challenges Quotes

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

It's not hard to do a show; it's hard to cancel a show.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.