Quotes About Self

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

The majority of my job is being an open channel, and if I'm not being very authentic with who I am in myself, then it doesn't feel like I can dig down deep and get to really vulnerable stuff, or stuff I have never felt before.

A waist trainer will help you get the figure you want and feel sexier and better about yourself.

We're always waiting to discover new parts of ourselves.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

I think colouring your hair is the best way to get a new look.

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.

I would never bet against a side I'm playing in. I'd never bet against myself, ever.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.