Paul Schneider Quotes

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

My parents didn't have any money.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.