Quotes About Introspection

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

I don't make good connections with people and I don't know if that's an emotional block on my part. I don't know.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

I'd say I have no conscience, to a certain extent.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.

One of the things that I learned about myself is that I can get involved in an idea and forget, in a really terrible way, what are the actual consequences of what I'm working on?

You've always got to think about what you're doing and what the consequences are. Sometimes I don't think like that.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.