Myself Quotes

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

I put myself into character for my songs.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.