Quotes About Self

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself.

It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself.

Since my initials are J. U., people called me Ju. Or Jujube, like the candy.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

We all have our inner demons.

I still have moments when I close myself in, but I wouldn't be on the path that I am with the career that I've had if I didn't have a deep understanding of the sense of my inner freedom.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.