Cass McCombs Quotes

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

I don't generally like to watch myself.

I don't read anything about myself.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.'

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

I don't know if it's because of the way we grew up - we just don't like talking about ourselves or talking about what we're doing... It's not really our approach.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.