Ayelet Waldman Quotes

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.

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

My whole act is confession.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

I think a lot of pain in people's lives comes from not being open and honest about what they really think, what they really feel, what they like, what they don't like.

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you

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.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

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

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

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'd rather tell you how I really feel.