Frances Bean Cobain Quotes

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

There will be no more blabbing secrets to the media.

I don't feel the need to share the truth with people that I don't know.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.