Tana Mongeau Quotes

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Connecting with your fans in that way is just the coolest thing, because I am very fortunate that my fans let me be very open on my social media - never really judge me for that or anything.

You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.

I'm so public about my love life I'm really not trying to hide anything.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

I never try and tune anything out. I think that's a mistake. You want to bring all the honest stuff that's going on inside you into your work. Otherwise, you're keeping a lot of authenticity out.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If I want to see charming people, I can watch TV.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

What I'm pretty much giving you when you see me onstage is me; it's not a fake character.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

I believe the best friendships are forged with those you can be yourself with.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

I am flawed, but at least I can admit it, and at least Kenny Omega, Tyson Smith, is exposed to every single one of you, every single night I perform in the ring. And the relationships that I have in my life with the fans, they're all with me. We are all family.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

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.