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If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

If you don't want to part with belongings but still want to monetize them, then you can rent them out.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.