Oscar Wilde Quotes

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

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

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

I try to just be as real and open as possible.

If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

My whole act is confession.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

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 really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

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

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

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 find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.