Paulo Freire Quotes

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

My life is now an open book.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I can't become another person, no matter how much makeup I wear. Something of your own past, your experiences and personality always comes out in the role, and that makes acting very risky. You're exposed. You always wonder if you can pull it off.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

I'm an open book. I share a lot of my life with everybody.

When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.

I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

I've always been transparent in who I am as a person.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.