Ben Dolnick Quotes

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I am a really sensitive person.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

I was a sensitive boy.

One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.

I am a very sensitive person.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.