Kelly Lynch Quotes

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.

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.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.