Quotes About Introspection

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

I think Ma is more honest than I am sometimes.

You cannot look too much at the result, you need to also look at yourself and what you've done, how you have maximised the machinery that you have.

I'm not a very macho guy.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

I'm not a model. I don't really think much about how I look. If I did, I'd go mad.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Rejecting Madrid? It's true that during the process, I decided to stay on the fringes. It was a time when I needed to think things through.

I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

Back in Manchester, I was not happy with myself.

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.