Quotes About Introspection

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I'm not a social person. I don't like parties. I like small groups, we discuss ideas in my office.

I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

I never discuss discussions.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I'm not bamboozled by the fact that people are disgusted by me. I'm not my biggest fan either.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.