Randy Newman Quotes

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.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

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

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

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.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

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 have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal.

I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.