Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

Because of how much I've gone through, I want to say I'm more wise than my age.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.