Quotes About Vulnerability

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence.  This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

He who steals my purse steals my right to live, was the reply, old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

I want to get better and take more risks. I need to sing with other people. I need to access parts of me that aren't being accessed in the Cocteau Twins.

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.

I was born two months premature with jaundice, twisted legs and a hole in my heart.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

I'm so old... when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

I'm rubbish at Twitter.

Twitter... can ruin your life.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

For someone like me, who as a kid could not have two people in front of me without wanting to hide, to end up on stage with a lot of people in front of me, feeling good, it has to be a strange and special place.

As you go in there, you keep winning; after you've had a loss or two, people start to humanize you.

There's something about a podcast that feels like two people in a closet with the lights off.

Please understand, I'm not a hearts-and-flowers type of guy. Never have been. I don't like grand romantic gestures. I don't like the endless declarations of love, bouncing back between two people like an overused tennis ball.