Maya Lin Quotes

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

[Intellectual property] cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. He who receivers an idea from me, receives instructions from me without lessening mine, as; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

I have always believed in a zone of privacy, but I guess I have been rezoned.

I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.

I'm not ashamed of my personal life.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.

People don't know who I am from my clothes, and they don't need to.