About Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' album Global a Go-Go (2001) and about the song writing process.
Strummer talks war and music (13 November 2001)
“If you are going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.”
“I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.”
Gotta Make it to Heaven
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator.
Misattributed
Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/
“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
"Sir Bobby Robson: his most memorable quotes," 2009
“Now Sundays are good days to go shopping, to go out, to play sports.”
“Privatization” of the faith in Uruguay criticized by bishop https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/12158/privatization-of-the-faith-in-uruguay-criticized-by-bishop (March 26, 2008)
“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”
"On Being in Love".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once... No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart.
