Quotes About Vulnerability

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.

I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

Being in a new relationship is exciting and difficult and there's some things you really want to remain secret.

There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.

Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.

There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in the shadow of people I've dated and people I worked with publicly.

I mean, there are things that I've experienced that I don't joke about because I'm just like, 'People don't really think it's funny that I had an eating disorder for a long time.' There are some things that just like really bum people out.

I just think it's amazing if I could help anyone to feel like they can open up or that they realise some things about themselves and realise they're not alone, then amazing. I've kind of done my job.

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.