Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

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

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

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.

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

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him.

I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want, what they really dream about, what really drives them. It's as if sometimes we're sort of embarrassed, as we get older, to be transparent about that. But you save so much time if you're transparent about what you want.

In my music, I bare it all; it's really naked.

The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

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 don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

One must be frank to be relevant.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

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.