Quotes About Vulnerability

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

Writing songs has always been a process where I divulge a lot, just because music is a tool for me to sift through and process intense emotions. But having music be my primary occupation has changed how I interact with art.

Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

Getting hit in the eye is scary thing, not like a tooth or finger. You get hit in the eye, you only got two of those.

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

When you're at the top you're always going to be shot at.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

I think with being so honest and real with not just the guys I was having relationships with but with America, I have a lot to give, so I'm excited to be able to use my platform to continue talking to people about these topics that I had to deal with on national television.

Topics that are hard to talk about can be difficult for a lot of people, but it's important that we make sure we're addressing difficult topics/issues so it doesn't become the norm.

It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.