Damon Albarn Quotes

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

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 love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

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.'

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.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

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

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.