Myself Quotes

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

~ Tristan Wilds

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

~ Morrissey

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

~ Blake Shelton

I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.

~ Luis Fonsi

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

~ Tinashe

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

~ John Grant

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

~ Robert Frost

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

~ Teena Marie

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

~ Neil Young

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

~ Charlie Hunnam

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

~ Michael Bolton

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

~ Amy Winehouse

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

~ Chris Daughtry

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

~ David Bowie

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

~ R. Kelly

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

~ Stephan Jenkins

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

~ Chris Kirkpatrick

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

~ Lake Bell

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

~ Hugh Hefner

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

~ E. B. White

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

~ Hugh Jackman

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

~ Christie Brinkley

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

~ Anne Lamott

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

~ William J. Clinton

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

~ Jenny Eclair

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

~ Jerry Stiller

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

~ Johnny Winter

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.

~ Kristen Stewart

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

~ Liya Kebede

We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.

~ Carmen Dell'orefice

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

~ Imtiaz Ali

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

~ Sienna Miller

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

~ Michelle Dockery

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

~ Eric Ries

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

~ Christine Lahti

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

~ Lana Parrilla