Lucky | 
"Depression marked my family life and my outlook on the world. From my Dad's struggle with his demons to my own periods of darkness, it's been a constant presence throughout my life. Writing has always been an outlet for me, a way of making sense of the jumble in my head and to stop thoughts racing out of control... ' - pg 233
'I was talking with Chyna the other day, discussing how at a certain point in your life you have to start living in the way you want your children to know you to be - and more importantly how you want them to live.' - pg 147
'It was a really happy time. Something I suppose I'm more aware of looking back. The frequent anxiety and panic attacks made it harder to enjoy at the time, but I was aware of how different things could have been. Music had given me a voice and had altered the trajectory of my life.' - pg 147
'Now I wanted to do everything I could do to live positively. Next I stopped smoking weed... I didn't want to rely on weed as I was going through grieving. I wanted to feel everything that I had to feel, deal with suicide and get through it without crutches... It took a good few months of being weed-free to notice any positive changes, but once the smoke cleared I felt like I was seeing the world through different eyes.' - pg 102
'Ken told me my dad hadn't been happy. That came as another surprise to me as my Dad had always seemed upbeat and jolly. I began to realise that it's often people who outwardly appear the most content who are hiding an inner darkness.' - pg 101
'No matter how bad life has got, I've always had hope. There's always the chance for things to get better. Kill yourself and you erase that chance. I could see now that this was the difference between people who end up killing themselves and people who don't. Hope.' - pg 101
'I thought about his suicide for a long time afterwards. The fact that he had done it surprised me, because I'd always seen him as a weak personal and I didn't think that taking your own life was easy. I can't imagine the strength it would take to make a decision so final and I am sure that even those people who do take the leap must, in the last moments of life, wish that they could undo the knot.' - pg 101
'I deserved to be that angry... he'd hurt me so much and pushed me to a point where I couldn't respond rationally any more.' - pg 99
'When you're in a bad situation you can either focus on the positive or on the negative...' - pg 94.
'The first line I came out with for a song might not be great, but I'd keep going. I figured that if I hadn't got something down to work with, I'd got nothing. A page full of anything, no matter what, was better than a page full of nothing. To state the obvious, nothing's ever finished if it isn't started.' - pg 79
'Rhyming helped me deal with things, it was a form of therapy for me at times, helping me get what was inside out - and, most importantly, onto a piece of paper where I could make sense of it... It's useful to have an avenue for the anger, the sadness and the upset and to be able to let go and channel that negative energy, rather than bottling emotions and feelings which then come out more unpredictably and dangerously.' - pg 78
"... I was way too young to have the tools to deal with my family situation..." - pg 13.
