Jake Bugg Quotes

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.

I finished school in 1981 when there was a recession on so there was not a lot of money around or work. I worked on building sites during that time and there were many people on the dole or always looking for work.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

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

I was on the dole.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I grew up poor.

I know what poverty is.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

My parents didn't have any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.