Jay-Z Quotes

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the youngest. Only a couple of months old when he died.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.

Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, 'How does it feel to have a dad?' And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.

I lost my father when I was barely 10.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.

My dad leaving my life. That's the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me, the memories, and try to move on forward each day, knowing that he's still here, looking down on me.

When I was nine, my father passed away. It's one thing when you're a kid and your father wasn't there for you. My father was there, and then he was taken away.