Drake Quotes

Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Some things you just don't get over.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.

I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger, or it doesn't.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

I think the toughest phase of life is over, and I don't wish it on anyone. My family has gone through a lot, and I don't want to dwell on the past.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.