Action Bronson Quotes

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

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

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

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.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.'

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

I don't know, I think when filming a reality show, you definitely sign up for showing the world vulnerable parts of your life and all that can be challenging.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.