J. Tillman Quotes

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.