Phil Lester Quotes

#1. Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.

Phil Lester

#2. It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.

Dan Howell

#4. A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

Johanna Siguroardottir

#5. Normalness leads to sadness.

Phil Lester

#6. Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Leslie Jamison

#7. I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm on tour, because I'm making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.

Colin Stetson

#8. Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

Phil Lester

#9. You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.

Phil Lester

#10. Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Laurel Clark

#11. If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.

Phil Lester

#12. That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Lester Bangs

#13. A study of Fortune 500 companies from research organization Catalyst found that those with the highest representation of women on their boards of directors performed significantly better than those with the lowest representation of women.

Anonymous

#14. Do people normally wear boxers under their pyjamas?

Phil Lester

#15. Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.

Phil Lester

#16. The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.

Phil Lester

#17. Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

Stanley Clarke

#18. What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

Ace Hood

#19. It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.

Phil Lester

#20. Just picked up a black pair of scissors thinking they were my glasses.
That definitely would't have enhanced my eyesight.

Phil Lester

#21. I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

Phil Lester

#22. I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy!

Phil Lester

#23. Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Michael Hintze