Balthus Quotes

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

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.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

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

I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.