Roland Orzabal Quotes

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.

You don't forget where you came from. I came from nothing. I was in Marseille in a bad area. We didn't have anything. We were rich in love.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

I didn't want my son to see the same things I had seen growing up or have to go through the same things I went through.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

Life is really hard for some people.

You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for you and still feel the same loneliness and the same problems that a lot of kids have.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

I come from nothing.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.