Elizabeth Ashley Quotes

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

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

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don't want to play this game.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate to. That I was ready, finally, in my life to be that honest with myself.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

It's torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.