Quotes About Introspection

Running for me is self-exploration.

Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

I was so stupid when I was young. I thought that everyone should share my feelings and my sadness about the state of the world, the stuff you have when you are 16 and are asking if God exists.

When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world.

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

I'm definitely not a saint.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

I wasn't a very good salesman.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

I've had to find my sanity.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.