Joe Cocker Quotes

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

I am terrible at relationships.

It's easy to talk about how great love is or how you feel heartbroken after a breakup, but it's not as easy to talk about the process of going through the end of a relationship.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

I miss singles terribly, but it is a choice I make because I don't feel I am good enough anymore. I don't want to be 100 odd in the world and still play for the heck of it.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

I didn't have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.

I don't want to go on forever and leaving the sport is the hardest decision.

I get self-conscious and I get insecure, as everybody else does, but I try not to show that.

In the wake of a failed relationship, I'm often flooded with if-onlys.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.