Quotes About Introspection

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

I turned to God but for a while I wasn't doing it properly.

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

I am not a prophet.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.