Quotes About Vulnerability

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I don't show it but I'm actually quite a softie deep down.

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

The first cut is the deepest.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

If you're defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don't get bigger.

I'm very open to being defined.

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

I do have a delicate side.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

With 'Someone New', I was at my rawest, and I didn't want to cover it up. And same with 'You Should Know' and 'Under the Table.' I wanted it to be the lyrics and the chord progressions, and the intricacies of the guitar of 'Someone New' are so delicate, sometimes that's all you need.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.

My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.