Philip Glass Quotes

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

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

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

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

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

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

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

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.'

It's not like I have all the answers.