Nick Cummins Quotes

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

It wouldn't be in the typical fashion of the Go-Go's that anything isn't a struggle.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.