Paulo Coelho Quotes

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

I am a private human.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

I'm a private person in many ways.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

I never record in front of anybody.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

I'm a private person; I'm pretty to myself.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.

Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.