You had a difficult upbringing, how did that affect you?

Sometimes you say you need a difficult upbringing in order to be competitive.

But his early music was fuelled by anger about his difficult upbringing on a rough, inner-city council estate.

She apologised and was spared a custodial sentence because of her difficult upbringing.

He spoke of his difficult upbringing as the son of a bartender and a maid.