Noah Cyrus Quotes

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I've never been a confessional writer.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

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

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

You know, I've done so much of my life in front of cameras... I wanted to show a different side of me. And I put it all out there anyway, so why not put my love life out there?

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

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.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.