Quotes About Clarity

What's Shobhaa De's problem with me and my son? What does she mean by saying, 'Like father, like son?' Let the truth come out.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I like everything sorted by colors, even the shoes. It's important to know exactly where everything is when you walk into the closet.

Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.

I was always sorted; I wanted to become an actor.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

People want an easy sound bite.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.