Quotes About Vulnerability

I was 23 and saw my face on the side of the big T4 bus at V Festival and almost fainted.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

Just because I give you a piece of me doesn't mean you get it all. There's very few people in my life who get it all, and that's sacred to me.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He's scared to be hit.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm not much of a fighter.

Sometimes it's kind of strange, and it's definitely something I have to work on in the future, but when I'm big favourite in fights, it's almost like I try too hard and try to force things to happen. That always seems to take a bad turn and makes my performance look bad, even if I win.

I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

Even if you don't think you filter your life on social media, by its very nature you're only showing part of yourself.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

I've always wanted to be the first one to laugh at me. I didn't want to get up on stage and start doing something and have someone say, 'Are you serious? Do you think that's good?'

'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

It's a bit like some martial arts: if you're behind somebody there's not much they can do, if you're in a certain position. So same thing with a fish, if you're in the right position you're okay. As soon as you get in the wrong position you can be in very real danger.