Sissy Spacek Quotes

I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

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.

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

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.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

I have a family to feed.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.