Karl Rove Quotes

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

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

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

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

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

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

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

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.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

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

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.