Quotes About Introspection

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

A friend once told me that I was always so manipulative, 'a silver-tongued devil,' as he put it. I was never aware of it.

The busyness of life can keep you running from one activity to the next. If you never step back to consider whether all those activities are really how you want to spend your time, you could miss out on building the kind of life you want. Devote at least 10 minutes each day to examining the bigger picture in your life.

I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.

Would I consider myself alt-right, if you want to ask that question? No, I don't. Not even a little bit. I think I am a pretty devout Christian, and I treat my walk with Christ very seriously - very seriously - in a way that I'm constantly looking at the things I do and how that affects me existentially.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.

When I re-read my diaries, it's the self-doubt that seems to be prevalent.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write a diary every day.

I always wanted to have a diary growing up but was too lazy to commit to one.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.