Asin Quotes

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

It is hard to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg is the most interesting boring person in the world or the most boring interesting one.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

I would describe myself as eclectic: Bohemian in thought and conservative in action - or maybe it's the other way around.