Loren Gray Quotes

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

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

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.

I don't want to have to hide from the world anymore.

Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.

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

I really live my life openly.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

I have no boundaries. I have nothing to hide.

I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.

It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.