Quotes About Vulnerability

I love listening to demos. They're so raw.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real... That way ends up being very healing with people.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.

A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.

I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I want the audience to feel them as well.

I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.

When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to share their story.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

I used to isolate a lot, but now I've been reaching out and leaning on other people.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

Back in the day you used to have a fight. You win, you lose, you get up and go home, dust yourself down. Social media made it so that if you lose a fight it is on camera, you are embarrassed and you are forced to react.

In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

I think that any time you share a secret, you're a little nervous about people's reaction to it.