Leos Carax Quotes

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

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

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

I don't talk a lot about myself.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I come out of real life.