Quotes About Consciousness

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

I pinch myself daily.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

The golden age was when people were starting to understand what hip-hop was and how to use it. I was lucky to come up then. Everybody wanted to be original and have substance; it was somewhat conscious... There was an integrity that people respected.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'