Ronnie Musgrove Quotes

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I was an abused kid.

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.