Michelle Tea Quotes

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

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

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

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'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.

I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.

I don't live my life in a social way. I don't put everything out on social media. I don't live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I've always been private, ever since I was in high school.

Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal.

I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself.

Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.'

I'm not an intimate person, really.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I think I've been pretty private as a person. Nobody really knows me.

I don't know, I think when filming a reality show, you definitely sign up for showing the world vulnerable parts of your life and all that can be challenging.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

I share a lot of my life with everybody.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.