Quotes About Introspection

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.

What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

For me, writing is just processing.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

It's only when a project or film doesn't work, that you think about what you could have done differently - whether you chose unwisely, or was there something in your application in that role, as an actor, as a director or as a producer, that you could have done better.

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.