Amos Lee Quotes

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

The art of life is to show your hand.

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 don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

I have always said what is in my heart.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

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

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I have faced up to what I am.

My life is an open pamphlet.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

I'm not afraid to say what I feel.