Quotes About Honesty

We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

In order for life to be more than a frustrating game of one-upsmanship, one has to remain emotionally open and vulnerable.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

To admit that you're shooting for the stars - that you're allowed to do that, that it's not shameful - that to me is very vulnerable.

If I can show people how vulnerable and how flawed I am, maybe others will relate.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

I don't care about me being vulnerable or embarrassing situations.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.