Peter Handke Quotes

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't want to be easily defined.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want to do.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I only know how to be Sizzle.