Ben Rhodes Quotes

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

When you're young, it's really easy to lose your perspective, which I did, really losing sight of who I was. I started believing I was who everybody thought I was, which was a crazy rock star. You know, 'Life's Been Good,' that story.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique.

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

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.