Bryant H. McGill Quotes

If anybody says they're not afraid of themselves, they're lying!

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I'm afraid of me.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Sometimes I’m afraid that I’m losing myself.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

I tend to scare myself.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

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.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

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

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

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

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.