Self-Revealing Quotes

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

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

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

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.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.

I don’t hide my emotions from people.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.

Say something personal, not from a publicist.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

There is a way to tell the truth about you without you; it's just a lot more work.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

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