Josh Billings Quotes

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

We're our own worst critics.

When I don't play well, nobody needs to say anything to me. I beat myself up.

I can be hard on myself, and I can get down on myself.

I criticise myself a lot. My friends complain about it.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

If you have problems, it's something to apologize for, to be embarrassed about, not to revel in. It's the perfectionist in me...That's why people call me the "bossy little thing"-I'm the bossiest person around.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

Women are hard on themselves.