Jackson Browne Quotes

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I've lived in poverty.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I've been poor most of my life.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me very early on, "If you're going to be broke anywhere, it's better to be broke in L.A. At least the weather is nice." I was like, "You're right." I didn't take them up on that.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.