Quotes About Reflection

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

I'm single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I'm going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.