Quotes About Introspection

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.