Mahira Khan Quotes

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I'm not sure I'm confident in the viewing public seeing every side of me and I'm not sure I'm confident enough that I'd allow myself to be that exposed.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

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.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.