Eric Clapton Quotes

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

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.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.