Rashid Johnson Quotes

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

When you're going through a divorce it's hard.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Life is stressful.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

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 was an emotional basket case.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.