Imran Tahir Quotes

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I have faced up to what I am.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'