Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

I've never been a confessional writer.

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.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

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

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 hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

Just sharing who you are - there's so much value in that.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

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.

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

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

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

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

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

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 think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

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.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.