Abusive Quote by DJ Ashba

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a…

— Christina Aguilera

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook…

— Carrie Brownstein

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if…

— Sinead O'Connor

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the…

— Matthew James Thomas

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

— Keith Sweat

I know I didn't want to get caught up in the cycle of drugs and violence that was around me. Deep down inside, I…

— Michael Oher

Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I…

— Pattie Mallette

At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos;…

— Ginger Zee

I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died.…

— Michael Stipe

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant…

— Billy Corgan