Nate Ruess Quotes

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

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'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

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

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I don't know what I am.

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.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I'm not so certain in life.