Quotes About Introspection

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

I am always picking on something or the other about the way I have performed a scene.

Man, I wish I was a better pickup guy. I've always been the guy in a relationship.

The examined life is no picnic.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.