Brian Eno Quotes

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I tend not to look back on old clips of myself or look at things I wrote or listen to something from the radio 30 years ago: I remember them, but it feels like someone else.

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

I look forward and see myself look back.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.