Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!

I've always been really open onstage.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

I'm open to finding love.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

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

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.