Bryson Tiller Quotes

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

Being on the road is hard, and just being able to come home, and have our fans rally behind us, it's good for a change.

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

When I was younger, my mom and I lived in a car because we didn't have anywhere to go.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

There's no denying for me that 'Emmerdale' is an amazing place to work. I've got so much to be grateful for. Over the years it's given me a great sense of purpose and a real sense of belonging.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.