Lucy Dacus Quotes

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music.

I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.

All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

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 tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.