John Grant Quotes

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

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.'

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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

I'm an introspective dude.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

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.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I don't analyse myself.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I'm a very introspective individual.

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.