Min Jin Lee Quotes

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

Putting your work out there is scary!

When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

Writing is inherently scary.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.

I've got to overcome that tendency to hide what I write or throw it away.

It felt like a huge risk when I first started putting my comic online. It was very scary to put myself out there that way and to open up something that I cared about very dearly - and to be the only creator involved with it.