Quotes About Vulnerability

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

People know what I look like. I take photos on my own, and I don't edit them, so people know.

I put up lots of photos with no make-up because it's really important that people see this is what I actually look like.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.

It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.