Sonny Sandoval Quotes

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.

For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.