Bryan Adams Quotes

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.

I put myself through college.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I've ever done.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I do it all, man. I produce, I do my own wardrobe and my own ironing, too!

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.