Leonard Cohen Quotes

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

Money is a never-ending problem.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

Being able to provide for me and my brother and my family, that's pressure.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.