Maggie Rogers Quotes

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.