Quotes About Self-awareness

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.