John Prine Quotes

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

I'm never really comfortable; I think it's kind of natural to feel uncomfortable, and I think if people say they are comfortable, they're just lying.

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.