Courtney Barnett Quotes

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

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

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

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.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

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.

I just want to tell people how I am.

Seeing guys in their most vulnerable state talking about their bodies gives me an opportunity to talk about everything. Once they open up about their appearance, then usually they are willing to open up about pretty much everything.

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

I've never been an embarrassed, 'never talk about their feelings' sort of person.

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.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I'm an emotional person. Anger and frustration comes out in many ways... I'm not afraid to hug my friends that I love, and I'm not afraid to express my emotions when I'm upset.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.