Charles Bradley Quotes

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

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

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

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

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

It's not easy to talk about myself at all.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

It's tough being me.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.