Quotes About Self-discovery

Music was the voice I didn't have.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.