Quotes About Vulnerability

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing yourself, and you're expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

I don't have audition horror stories, I just have situations in which I was made to feel so small. That's the worst of all, because it's really hard to recover from.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

When you have a fighter who's been punched a lot and been knocked out a lot of times, they're not going to be able to recover. They're going to look like they were knocked out.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

I want someone who can handle me. And I'm not the easiest person to handle.

In past relationships, I learned so much about that person through the tough conversations and how we handled them together.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

Hang out with me long enough, and I'm bound to let you down.

I always wanted my stand-up to feel like not just a show, but like you're hanging out with someone for an hour. I like to just talk.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

I'm not the happiest when it comes to my music.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.