Quotes About Introspection

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

I always hate taking categorical positions.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.

It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

Have we gotten too full of ourselves? Possibly.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.

Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.

I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in.

Post 'Pink,' I don't have any film which I can pick out from my filmography and say 'It would have been better if I hadn't done this film.'

There is a certain line that I draw for myself, when it comes to what to post and what not to on social media.