Quotes About Introspection

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I got caught up in all the party things and I guess I'd say my head was above the clouds.

I don't go to clubs.

There was a time I'd sing and dance at night clubs, but now I don't do that.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I'm not as cocky as I used to be.

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version of yourself.

I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious, egotistical perspective.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I don't like collaborating too much.

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

I feel like I've always thought of myself as a comedian.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

I am a comedian. My brain is critical - it's overthinking - but you can find ways to turn it down and realize that's not who you really are.