Quotes About Self-discovery

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how much happier I became, which is really cool for me to hear because I'm proud of myself.

I don't even consider it therapy anymore. I consider it availing myself of a guide.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.

I'm a firm believer in therapy.

Cooking and writing were my two forms of personal therapy and when I was doing over one or the other, I was in control of my day.

I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles itself as an insect. It's very hard to change after that.

I've always felt like writing and creating music is similar to therapy, because you're spending days, weeks, months reflecting on yourself and your life and trying to process everything and express those feelings out loud. It can be incredibly cathartic and healing.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Actors are always afraid of ending up like overcooked old soup over time. What's risky is that you don't realize this has happened, and you just get thick and boring. Going abroad was like getting a new pot to cook everything again. I was a rookie, a new self. And they were asking me, 'Who are you?'

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

If you are prepared to admit to others and to yourself who you really are, then you can have a fantastic life. Of course, you need to have a thick skin to get through it all.

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.

There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.