Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

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'd like to do a concept album, with the concept being about me.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

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.'

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.