Quotes About Introspection

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that most people think something that is wrong, which is great.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

I want to portray myself as myself.

As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

In portraying Jang Han-seok, I tried to draw upon certain aspects of myself and emphasize expressions of evil from deep within.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.