Quotes About Reflection

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.

When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

After watching a movie, you can't conclude that I am the same person in real life too.

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

If you get a no, your best bet is to find out why. The more concrete your business gets, the more you'll get yeses.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

When I came into this profession, my first condition to myself and my managers was that I don't want to work every day. As an actor you keep giving, so it's important for you to need the time to take things in.

As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day I've managed to keep my voice in good condition.

Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.

I shaved my head once and learned that I've got, like, a cone head. So I'm never gonna do that again.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

I must confess that I was not always the perfect boyfriend.

People never confess to failure. They should.

All art is a confession.