Janet Varney Quotes

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a character.

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.