Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

My whole act is confession.

The art of life is to show your hand.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

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.

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.

I have a hard time not wearing my heart on my sleeve and answering people honestly. You know, my friends warn me that I should be more guarded 'cause sometimes I am too honest and open, but it's also just who I am.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.