Quotes About Introspection

I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.

That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.

We don't want any starry trappings that would make us obsessed with ourself and our image.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

I started meditating.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.