Frank O'Hara Quotes

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

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts.

It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

A lot of the work I've done has been about being very raw and open with your emotions.

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

I want to say to younger women especially that it's OK to be an outsider. It's OK to admit to your rage. You're not the only person walking down the street feeling angry inside.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.