Quotes About Introspection

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I've done all the partying, I've done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.