There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

Bernard Sumner Quotes