Tana Mongeau Quotes

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

No way will I put my family and my life on the TV or be involved with something like a dating show or any type of reality show.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

My life is pretty much an open book.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

I would never be on a reality show.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Everyone knows I'm married; I just don't discuss it. Because it's a part of my life that I'd rather keep private... When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.