Quotes About Reflection

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.

When I re-read my diaries, it's the self-doubt that seems to be prevalent.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I write a diary every day.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

I always wanted to have a diary growing up but was too lazy to commit to one.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.