John Otway Quotes

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

2016 was really challenging for me. I don't know what it was.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

I'm the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I've seen a lot of hardships.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times from failing, I really connected to the blues.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

An existence transfigured by failure.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.