Quotes About Vulnerability

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

I've weirdly always got to show my bottom. For some reason my bum always comes out and it's not always written in the script.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's why so much comes out on-screen: because that's my time to let go in a safe place. When you're doing that, it's all written down on paper, and it's total fiction.

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

I don't think I've done anything quite like 'Gypsy' before. Especially the honest way that it is written.

I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.

We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

Growing up, I never expressed myself to nobody. I never told nobody when something was wrong.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.

Where I went to high school at was a predominantly white town, and I definitely got pulled over a number of times for driving in the wrong car on the wrong side of town. As you get older, you start to realize that at any moment, there could be a trigger, and that could be you in that situation.