Synyster Gates Quotes

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

Confidence is everything in this business.

It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound or what it's going to be or if people are going to like it.

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

The more confident you are, the less doubt you will have, and the more likely your success will be.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how tough I am. I've got to prove how good I am.' And man, now as I'm getting older, I think it's almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun making art.