Quotes About Revelation

J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

When I was playing in England, I started to realise what Arsenal meant.

It's shocking when you start to grow up and realise that your parents had a life before you! But why would you? Sometimes you don't really have a need to.

'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.

In the 11 years I've worked in films, I've realised that no one is indispensable, and that has actually been very comforting to know.

I always thought you went out and entertained people and got nothing back in return. But in the last year, I've realised that what the crowd gives you is so amazing, that sometimes I just stand onstage and cry.

Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.

I realised that you just don't know about destiny. You think you are in control of your fate but, really, you are not. There are other powers at work. You don't get to see the full picture until decades later.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

God probably shook his head and said 'Oh, my goodness' many times in dealing with my father. But what God saw in my father was that he was a rock, a foundation in a lot of ways - someone people could relate to who could shine strong and was not afraid to reveal himself. I think he was a great role model to many people in that way.

God has a funny way of giving you the answer when you get your mind away from goofy things.

There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

The coolest people reveal themselves gradually, and flirting isn't just about making yourself look great, it's about making him feel great too.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.