Alison Goldfrapp Quotes

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

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.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

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

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

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.

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

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.