Quotes About Introspection

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

I don't digest things with my mind.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.

I think my voice isn't that easy to digest.

At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

I should have directed more but I am a lazy person and have taken a backseat.