MO Quotes

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

I feel like I go in on a lot of things that I want to be going in for.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.