Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

My birthday is in November, so I think I'm a Scorpio? I'm not even sure!

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.

I don't know if it's just me getting older, but things that used to bother me, or that I used to take personally, or maybe since going through a public divorce. I just like, really, it takes a lot to bother me nowadays.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

I'm nowhere near Barry Sanders. But that doesn't take anything away from my game.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that's just not me.

You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.

Everyone should nurture the ability to laugh at themselves.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.