Donal Logue Quotes

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

I moved to New York in 2003 with about $100 bucks in my pocket and a suitcase.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

... avaricious to a most infamous degree; needy at the same time, having a numerous family to provide for

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.