Quotes About Introspection

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

I haven't really got any hidden talents.

I don't have any special skills or any hidden talents. I don't.

I think it's something you learn over a period of time; you learn to be more comfortable within yourself, appreciative of what you've got and what you haven't, you realise the talents you have and what you can do and you take on the chin the things that you have to. It's part and parcel of growing up.

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

I never talk openly about my political beliefs.

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.

It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

No talk show or game show for me, thanks.