Rollo May Quotes

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

I'm a very open person. I like to talk a lot about what I'm going through. It's how I cope with things.

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.

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

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I don’t hide my emotions from people.

I have a hard time not wearing my heart on my sleeve and answering people honestly. You know, my friends warn me that I should be more guarded 'cause sometimes I am too honest and open, but it's also just who I am.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

You write these vulnerable songs as a sort of therapy, but if you don't confront people on a daily basis, it's not reality. There's still a bit of separation there.

I have definitely learned - and this is definitely a human nature thing - that people are willing to, in an interaction with a comedian, admit things and talk about things with candor that they would never admit to a group of friends or an individual.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

We always trained never to really talk about things and get it off our chests but I think now everybody is more open about it.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I really live my life openly.