Veronica Roth Quotes

I have no shame - all my secrets are out there.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

I can't hide my feelings.

I love being uncomfortable. I love feeling very revealed. And when I watch a piece of work that I've done, I'm actually looking for that. How naked is this character? How truthful is this character? If it's truthful, there's automatically a separation.

The trick is that you have to stay naked. You must be naked.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

My whole act is confession.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

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

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

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

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

In my music, I bare it all; it's really naked.

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.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.