Quotes about Perception

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.