If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.
I was born with an evil face.
I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.
My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
Ministers [of government] fall like buttered bread: usually with the good side down.
Misfortune was my god.
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
It doesn't matter if it's game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don't play in your favor that night.