Solomon Burke Quotes

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

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.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

I struggle with control.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

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

I have been through a lot in my life, my parents divorced when I was 16, and it was a very difficult time.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

We all have bad things that happen in our lives, and a lot of us wonder how we can go back to before the event, whatever it is. 'Fallout 4' is about realising that your life has a new normal. We want to put you in the shoes of someone who knows what life was like before this.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

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

It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.

Everybody's darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin'. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain't goin' nowhere.

I had a really rough time from sort of July 2015 to July 2016. I was really struggling with my game.

I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.