Quotes About Self-awareness

Lots of songs aren't even from my experiences, but they're about accepting... the dark things about yourself.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

For me, if there's something I don't like about myself, I'll accept it - the sooner you can accept it, then you can work on making it better.

The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that's what I am.

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

I didn't feel like my English was very good until my sophomore year of college.

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

When I go in to fight week, I go, 'Maybe I'm going to be that guy on the highlight reel that gets knocked out.' I'm always thinking, 'How am I going to react? Am I going to be a sore loser?' I'm almost checking myself in case something bad happens.

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

I find myself saying 'sorry' for things I shouldn't be sorry for, haha.