Quotes About Vulnerability

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.

People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I didn't really know what I was doing. The fact that people related to the songs made me feel less alone in a lot of situations.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Nineteen was the first time I really had a real relationship, really fell in love, really had my heart broken, really broke her heart, and sex meant something a little bit different.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

I definitely don't think I could be in an open relationship.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.