Quotes About Introspection

I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends.

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

I have matured as a man to understand where my suspicion of women comes from and how that has everything to do with me and nothing to do with them. I have to deal with that.

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

Though I was launched as a hero, I was quick to realise that I did not have the capacity to sustain that position. I then reinvented myself intelligently and became a character artiste instead.

I'm not really a swagger guy.