Quotes About Introspection

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news