Gary Kemp Quotes

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

The '80s were a difficult period for me.

When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

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

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

2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

When you're going through a divorce it's hard.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

Whatever it takes to break you.

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.