Quotes About Self-awareness

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

If you do something mechanically for years to come, you tend to think that is life, but put yourself in a totally bizarre location, and you tend to discover so many aspects of yourself and life in general.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I'm not bamboozled by the fact that people are disgusted by me. I'm not my biggest fan either.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

I like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.