Marc Almond Quotes

I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they're going through a lot as a young adult.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

I've had a lot of people who've said they can relate to the show and it's helped them through a lot of difficult times, especially the kids in high school now. Everyone kind of feels like an outcast in high school. Even if you're super popular, you still have issues.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.