Demi Lovato Quotes

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'

I think there's strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of 'Oh, I've done this' but I'm still living that existence.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

I think a lot of people don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don't. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. But I'm happier this way - it's a good thing for me.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

I've always been very open about it. I've been very open about my addiction, about my panic disorder. But I think that transparency is what can separate you from others because I think that is where comedy is going.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

My whole act is confession.