Nicky Whelan Quotes

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.