Shane Koyczan Quotes

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

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.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

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

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I wish I could change bodies and destinies.

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?

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.