Quotes About Vulnerability

Once you realize security can't even secure themselves, how the hell they gonna secure you?

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

If we talked about heartbreak more, would we feel as bad about it? Or would it kind of be more mundane in a less painful way.

It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'