Maggie Rogers Quotes

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

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.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

It took me a while to find myself.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

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.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.