Quotes About Vulnerability

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.

I don't like ads: I'm too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don't even have a shed.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

I think blokes definitely sweat on most things when it comes to being questioned by women.

I know I was known as a ladies man and all that, but even the thought of holding my heroine's hand made me break into a sweat.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

I sweat on stage a lot.

Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.

'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.