Anjelah Johnson Quotes

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

My whole act is confession.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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 my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.

I have a hard time not wearing my heart on my sleeve and answering people honestly. You know, my friends warn me that I should be more guarded 'cause sometimes I am too honest and open, but it's also just who I am.