Quotes About Introspection

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

I do like to write about dark subjects.

I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

People think I don't have substance and I'm just another pretty face.

There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.

Sometimes I watch myself on 'The Hills' and I'm like, 'Whitney, could you, like, maybe pretend to be more interested, or say something of some substance instead of just giving looks?'

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren't a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.

When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.

You don't look at each other on the subway.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.