Quotes About Vulnerability

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything. I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.

It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.