Dev Hynes Quotes

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I appreciate what I have and, when people called me flash in the past, it hurt. I read an article not long ago saying I had given up all the bling and was concentrating on my football. Forget the football articles, that was one of the most satisfying things I have ever read about myself.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.